On-Demand Medical Drone Delivery
Using autonomous drones, the company Zipline can deliver blood products and medicines for immediate medical treatment in remote areas.
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Strength in Numbers
StrongMinds looks to break the cycle of depression for women in Uganda and beyond.
Expanding Access to Health Care in India Through Strong Mobile Design
Mobile interventions have great potential to make health care in India more accessible. But for providers to succeed, they must develop a nuanced understanding of the barriers to digital consumption and consider four specific aspects of design.
The Moral Imperative of Clean Household Energy
The world’s poor and low-income countries need greater access to modern energy solutions, including clean-burning fossil fuels for household use.
Putting the Invisible Hand to Work for Health
In an environment of declining aid budgets dwarfed by pools of private capital, some decades-old donor organizations are turning to market-based tools to address global health challenges.
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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.