Spring Water Protection Improves Health

By Jessica Ruvinsky

Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.

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Perspectives from the Field

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

The Missing Link in School Reform

By Carrie R. Leana 96

American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.

Networking for Sustainable Transport

By Brandon Keim

EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts, has grown quickly,
thanks to impressive fundraising and the design of a model program.

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Reinventing Health Care Services

By Arnold Milstein 1

A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.

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Opportunities in Mobile Health

By Jaspal S. Sandhu 16

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.

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Government 2.0

By Carleen Hawn

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.