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At NCIIA’s Open Conference, a Shift Toward Responsible Startups: Student, faculty teams are increasingly addressing poverty
Since 1995 NCIIA has been supporting efforts of students and faculty to invent, innovate and create impact with breakthrough technologies Open Minds Conferences is one of the key conferences on technology entrepreneurship in higher education. More recently, NCIIA’s support of E-Teams has shifted significantly toward projects whose primary focus is on addressing poverty.
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The Quest for Integrated Health Care: The RHIN project’s model for rural health integration
Integration has become a global trend in health care reform, and for good reason. Many BoP and middle-income health systems struggle with problems like service delivery duplication, low continuity of care and patient dissatisfaction. Integration of services at every stage of health promotion could address these issues. In Namibia, Geneva Global’s Rural Health Integrated Network project seeks to create a strategy for health systems integration that could provide a model for global practice.
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Nutrients: the connecting thread of global health
Is there a thread that connects the world’s gravest health issues, such as malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, maternal health and undernourishment during pregnancy, and malaria? You might be surprised to discover that something as simple as nutrients, which are also very complex, can be the connecting thread for all global health concerns.
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- nutrition, public health
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Gates explores Ghana’s health progress
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Big Data = Better Global Health?: What impact will the Global Burden of Disease study have?
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is the most ambitious effort to date to quantify the world’s health status. Involving 486 collaborators from 302 institutions in 50 countries, the study has been compared to the Human Genome Project in terms of potential impact. But health experts have criticized it as nontransparent and lacking accountability. What role will the GBD Study play in global health policymaking - and how can it be improved?
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D-Rev’s “Brilliance” Goes Global: CEO Krista Donaldson on designing products for the poor – and how to get businesses to sell them
Last week D-Rev announced that its Brilliance medical device for treating newborns with severe jaundice is now available for the global market. In this interview, D-Rev CEO Krista Donaldson explains how the non-profit makes a business case to manufacturers and distributors.
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