Health
Designing for Better Mental Health Policy
Why building capacity for design into mental health policymaking will produce more effective services.
Health Innovations in health care policies and programs
Economic Development
Innovating for a Healthy Context
Improving the effectiveness of development innovations
Environment
Health Care Takes on Climate Change
At Health Care Without Harm, we have worked with partners around the world to launch a global movement to get the health-care sector to zero emissions. Our experience provides lessons for forging global change to reverse the climate crisis.
Latest
The Gift of the Body
Singapore has more legally permissive rules than Taiwan on organ donation consent, but Taiwan has greater donation rates because of the infrastructure of consent that its medical system has built.
How to Build Digital Health Platforms in Emerging Markets
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
Excerpt
Against ‘It’s Better Than Nothing’
An excerpt from Global by Design on how misguided innovation can cause more harm than not getting involved
When Evidence Isn’t Enough
If policy and spending decisions have become much more rigorous, why have outcomes still failed to improve?
Most Popular
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Burnout From an Organizational Perspective
Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
The Upside of Nonprofit Burnout
Two years ago I quit my nonprofit CEO job. I’ve just had the two most productive years of my career.