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People-Powered Trauma Care

By Deborah Milstein

The chaos of Dhaka's roads inspired Jon Moussally, a physician in Massachusetts and instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to cofound a volunteer-based emergency response system aimed at reducing death from road traffic injuries. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.

Seeing a New Horizon

By Esha Chhabra

The international nonprofit Orbis' investments in cutting-edge technologies have revolutionized its telemedicine capabilities by expediting two-way communication between ophthalmologists in the United States and Europe and their counterparts in Asia, Africa, and South America.. A Field Report from the Fall 2019 issue.

Transforming Programs Through Predictive Analytics

Featuring Parag Gupta & Jeff Gold

A case study of how public higher education institutions are successfully using predictive tools to increase graduation rates and close the achievement and opportunity gaps between low-income and underrepresented minority students and their peers.

Building a More Ethical Blockchain

Featuring Cara LaPointe

Blockchain can help with everything from refugees' identities to conflict diamonds, but it must be handled carefully to manage the values embedded within it.

Open Source Aid

By Raj Kumar 3

An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.

Strengthening Data Capacity in the Social Sector

Featuring Aman Ahuja, Kevin Miller, Kathryn Pettit & Kauser Razvi

Scaling up data capacity requires champions at every level, be that a school district, state government, or national network.