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UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
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- Education, Health Care
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- academia, public health
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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health, research
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Why Toilets, Not Cell Phones, Are Key To Education Around The World
John Kluge says things many people want to say, but don’t because they think it’s taboo. Kluge is out to change that.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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There is a Fortune at the BoP: So why aren’t large corporations capturing it?
The first generation of writings on the "bottom of the pyramid" were based on the premise that large corporations are better positioned to address the market. But the experience of recent years shows in practice, large corporations have not always responded enthusiastically to the challenge.
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The Best of 2012: Hiring For My Startup : 4 Things I Wish I Had Done
At my startup, BLISS, we create economic opportunities for marginalized women, while producing exquisitely embroidered, high fashion handbags for global markets. In the last four months, I’ve hired two people, fired one, read around a hundred resumes, interviewed at least a few dozen, and read all the conventional wisdom I could find on the Internet and in print on hiring for startups.
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Insights On Intrapreneurship From A Google Hangout With Ashoka Changemakers: Watch last week’s session of industry insiders
Ashoka Changemakers broadcasted, via YouTube, a Google Hangout that brought industry insiders face to face with the two early-round prizewinning teams of Ashoka’s League of Intrapreneurs, a competition that rewards prominent intrapreneurs with media coverage and consulting support from Accenture Development Partnerships.
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- Education, Health Care
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Learning to Love Quacks: The Untapped Potential of Informal Health Care Providers
The lack of trained medical providers is a global crisis. But rather than simply recruiting and training new health care workers, the global health community could focus on improving the vibrant marketplace of informal providers who are already there.
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- Education, Health Care
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A Cure for Baldness – But Not Malaria?: Attracting Businesses to Global Health R&D
The business of global health R&D isn’t working. Companies are seeking profitable treatments for relatively minor health problems, while largely ignoring major global diseases. But innovative new funding models are combining profit motives with an integrated social cause. Can they change the face of global health R&D?
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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