Articles by Grant Tudor
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						Monday 
 May 20
 2013Learning From Mayonnaise: Can the power of marketing boost demand for micronutrients?Food companies use some truly innovative marketing tactics to get customers to consume more of their products. But if these tactics work for mayonnaise, can they also work for micronutrient-fortified cereal, or food supplements rich in bio-available nutrients? Grant Tudor discusses the role marketing can play in increasing demand for nutrient-rich foods. - Categories
- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
 
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						Tuesday 
 February 26
 2013The Other NCDs: What’s being done about the global mental health crisis?Mental illnesses receive far less attention and funding than other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Yet mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders already constitute a larger share of the global disease burden than both cancer and heart disease. And major depressive disorder alone will be the number one cause of disability globally by 2030. How is the social sector responding to this crisis? - Categories
- Health Care
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- public health
 
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						Guest Articles Wednesday 
 December 5
 2012Socially Contagious: How Microclinic International is Spreading Healthy BehaviorsWhether you’re buying shoes or making health-related decisions, your behavior is influenced by those around you. That’s the premise behind Microclinic International, which uses social networks to make good health contagious. - Categories
- Education, Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
 
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						Friday 
 November 9
 2012The ‘Unconventional Collaborations’ PopTech Approach: How to turn ‘silos of excellence’ into a networkLeetha Filderman, president of PopTech, says most of the work of solving today’s most pressing challenges is carried out by specialists in specific domains, or “silos of excellence”. But this approach slows the spread of innovation from field to field, limits our awareness of what tools are even available, and throttles the pace of change. PopTech’s approach advocates a network that complements the silos. - Categories
- Education
 
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						Guest Articles Tuesday 
 November 6
 2012The PeaceTXT Proposition: Stopping violence with an SMSPeaceTXT: a global mash-up of social innovators, software designers and information technologists (to name a few) collaborating on mobile technology’s potential to prevent violence. The collaboration, spearheaded by PopTech, is aiming to create the first broadly available tested methodologies and technical platforms for using mobile phones to disrupt violence and engender more peaceful communities. - Categories
- Impact Assessment, Technology, Telecommunications
 
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						Guest Articles Thursday 
 July 26
 2012Turning Poop into Profits: Waste Enterprisers Drive to Turn Waste Outputs into Fuel InputsIf Ashley Murray has something to say about it, the economics of poop are in for a shake-up. “85 percent of human waste generated on the planet is dumped directly into the environment without any treatment at all,” she said. Murray, founder and CEO of Waste Enterprisers and a Fellow at this year’s Unreasonable Institute, believes that waste can be transformed into fuel. - Categories
- Health Care, Technology
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- waste
 
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						Wednesday 
 May 2
 2012Ripe for Innovation: Democratized Diagnostics for the BoPHealthcare diagnostics might seem like a peculiar call-out, but a few examples suggest that this space is ripe for innovation – especially at the BoP – and with far-reaching implications. - Categories
- Health Care, Technology
 
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						Tuesday 
 March 6
 2012Welcoming the ‘Zeronauts’: Pushing Problems Toward ZeroJohn Elkington, who coined the phrase "triple bottom line," is jumpstarting a new dialogue. In an upcoming book, The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier, he details 50 enterprises and their entrepreneurial champions who are all working towards zero: zero pollution, zero poverty, zero pandemics, zero population growth and zero nuclear proliferation. - Categories
- Energy, Environment
 
