Articles by Kyle Poplin
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Guest Articles
Saturday
April 18
2015Weekly Roundup: Small victories in the garbage war, but e-waste looms ominously
One man’s trash is another man’s ticket to a healthier planet. Or to an early grave. Yet we’re seeing more innovations at the nexus of waste and commerce.
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- waste
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Tuesday
April 14
2015A Better Way to Pay for R&D? (Part 2): Pilot projects designed to help get Health Impact Fund ‘across the finish line’
After pilot projects have shown the Health Impact Fund really works, Professor Thomas Pogge says, "It will not be difficult to get some far-sighted – and cash-strapped – governments to become HIF supporters. And an agreement to create the HIF might then be reached, perhaps at a G20 meeting."
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- Health Care
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- infrastructure
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Monday
April 13
2015NexThought Monday – A Better Way to Pay for R&D? (Part 1): The plan to enable everyone to buy drugs at manufacturing cost
Every year, millions of poor people around the world die because they can’t get the medicine they need. Professor Thomas Pogge has long touted an idea that he believes would get the medicine where it’s needed and ensure reasonable returns for pharmaceutical companies. Is it time to pay attention to the Health Impact Fund?
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- Health Care
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Tuesday
March 31
2015Specialist Eye Care, Anywhere: Vula Mobile app enables rural health workers to conduct eye tests, consultations
The Vula app was developed when Dr. William Mapham, an ophthalmologist working in rural Swaziland, noted that poor communication between hospitals and outlying clinics meant that patients were often not referred to the eye clinic when they should have been.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Saturday
March 28
2015Weekly Roundup – Taking Issue with the Meaning (and Quantity) of Global Health Verbiage
The Weekly Roundup examines the precise nature of health care language, the imprecise Sustainable Development Goals, plus some possbily "magic" powder.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Monday
March 23
2015Wireless Warning: Firm behind Band-Aid-like wearable joins Ebola fight, eyes other markets
USAID recently highlighted the MultiSense Memory patch – basically a smart Band-Aid – for its potential in fighting infectious diseases like Ebola. The company that makes the patch, Rhythm Diagnostic Systems, believes it has many more uses.
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- Health Care
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Saturday
March 7
2015Weekly Roundup – Women are THE ‘emerging market’
Over the next five years, women will have purchasing power valued at $6 trillion. That makes them "the world’s largest ‘emerging market,’" according to Jeni Klugman and Purnima Mane.
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- Health Care
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Tuesday
February 3
2015This Antiseptic Was Brought to You By …: USAID guide mimics some market practices to speed ‘bench to bedside’
When it comes to global health, “people are good at inventing things but not always good at reaching scale,” according to David Milestone, senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. That’s why USAID developed “IDEA to IMPACT: A Guide to Introduction and Scale of Global Health Innovations,” which officially debuted on Monday.
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- Environment, Health Care