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Reducing Health Disparities in Atlanta
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
Tag: Public Health
Human Rights
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
Energy
Reflections from Fukushima
Confronting the risks and rewards of the world’s largest low-carbon energy source.
Business
Corporate Philanthropy for Real-World Health Interventions
Corporate philanthropy can play a powerful role in addressing pervasive public health problems—a look at three effective practices from the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
Review
Health
Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
Water & Sanitation
Water to the People
One of India’s biggest challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.3 billion citizens.
IMPACT INDIA
Troubled Water
One of India’s largest, and most intractable, challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.
Civic Engagement
Government Contractors as Civil Society?
The Congressional hearings on Planned Parenthood illustrate that dependence of civil society organizations on government contracts compromises their autonomy, turns them into pawns in political fights, and erodes their legitimacy.
IMPACT INDIA
Lessons for Creating Better Global Health Programs
Efforts to bring promising health care interventions to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path.
IMPACT INDIA
Do It the Hard Way
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.