Health
Judging Success in Translational Medical Research
Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.
Tag: Public Health
Environment
Bottom-Up Solutions to Mitigating Climate Change
NGOs, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and philanthropists need to help slow climate warming.
Nonprofits
Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries
The views of those who benefit from social programs offer insight into a program’s effectiveness.
Health
The Role of mHealth in South Africa
Part of a special series on scaling mobile health initiatives.
Environment
Tsunami Revisited: Stories and Recovery for Today
A review of the upcoming film “The Impossible” through the eyes of a disaster recovery philanthropist.
Nonprofits
Measuring to Scale What Works at the YMCA
Armed with robust shared measurement systems, national nonprofit networks are well positioned to scale promising and proven programs.
Health
An Organizational Ethics Disaster
The New England Compounding Center meningitis case spotlights the tragic consequences of failed organizational ethics.
Podcast
Health
Mobile Technology for Healthcare
Eric Dishman, director of health innovation at Intel, asserts that mobile technologies can create sustainable healthcare for all.
Health
Learning from Coca-Cola
When it comes to expanding medical supply chains in the developing world, there is much to be learned from Coca-Cola’s global-scale production and distribution model.