Health
Employment Power
How a private-public-academic partnership is helping people with serious mental illnesses find and keep jobs.
Tag: Disability
Economic Development
Concrete Ways for the US to Move “Beyond the Line” When It Measures Poverty
What would it take to implement “next-generation” poverty measures in the United States?
Human Rights
In Their Own Words
A social media campaign aims to increase awareness of areas that reduce health risks for domestic workers and employers alike.
Nonprofit Management
Donna Hill: A Profile in Third Sector Grit
Blazing the trail for blind Americans to gain acceptance and opportunity.
Microfinance
Financing Freedom
Microlending in leprosy colonies frees residents from poverty, shame, and isolation.
Podcast
Health
Thulasiraj Ravilla - Aravind: Sustainable Healthcare
How did a free eye clinic that started in a house in south India in 1976 grow to become Asia's first international training facility for blindness prevention workers? In this audio interview, host Sheela Sethuraman speaks with Thulasiraj Ravilla from the Aravind Eye Care System. Ravilla concentrates on the innovative approaches that Aravind has developed to become a model for high-quality, low-cost health care.
Podcast
Health
Joshua Silver - Bringing Vision to the Masses
In the United States, at least 60% of the population wears corrective lenses. Worldwide, in contrast, only 5% of the population does. Such statistics have led Josh Silver, Oxford atomic physicist, to conclude that more than half the world needs vision correction but doesn't have access to it. In this audio lecture, host of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, Silver shares how he decided to "do something useful for the world" by creating specialized, liquid-filled corrective lenses that are now worn by some 26,000 people in developing countries.
Podcast
Health
Devendra Raj Mehta - Bringing Mobility to the Disabled
In remote rural areas in India, 18 million people suffer isolation and poverty due to their inability to work. In this audio interview, Jennifer Roberts, associate editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, converses with D.R. Mehta, whose NGO gives mobility to 20,000 people a year through the fitting of a high-tech prosthetic limb known as the Jaipur Foot. Mehta discusses the genesis of his organization, which makes the prosthesis freely available to the poor.
Podcast
Health
Oliver Foot - The Next Generation of Global Health Workers
In 1982, ophthalmologist Oliver Foot founded Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, a unique mobile teaching facility housed in a DC-10 jet aircraft. In this audio interview With Globeshakers host Tim Zak, he discusses how his organization brings dedicated eye care professionals to the developing world to restore eyesight through surgery and other treatments.