Research Notes
Reconnecting Youth in America’s Cities
A new report examines the relationship between place and race, and disconnected youth in the United States.
Tag: Public Health
Health
Tomorrow’s Health Relies on New Relationships
Imagining a healthier future doesn’t start with how to pay for it. Communities must first develop a shared view of what a healthier life could be.
Health
How Evaluation Can Strengthen Communities
Including community members in decisions about evaluation can improve the community’s capacity to effectively manage and control change.
Health
The Promise and Peril of Community Evaluation
Four ways to improve community evaluation so that it helps build, rather than erode, social progress.
Health
Building Trust with Communities of Color
Strategies for engaging communities of color in local health initiatives.
Technology & Design
Crisis Tech
Listening closely to users has enabled developers to create digital tools that support responses to the recent Ebola outbreak.
Food
A Healthy Dose of Skepticism
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs and no evidence that their commercialization has been beneficial to society as a whole; until there is, it is prudent to just say no.
Health
School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
Health
The Mantra of Delivery
Four lessons for scaling social impact that arose from curing children’s diarrhea in Bangladesh in the 1980s.