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Crowdscience: 10 Must Do’s to Generate Innovative, Catalytic, and Disruptive Ideas… Everytime
Last fall, President Bill Clinton and TIME magazine named the Hult Prize one of the top five ideas changing the world, recognizing its innovative platform that engages millennials worldwide to create viable social enterprises.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- impact investing
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The New Idealism of International Aid
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Innovations in Anesthesia: How Gradian Health Systems is making surgery safer at the BoP
Over 90 percent of the 5.8 million annual deaths from physical injury occur in low-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented with surgical treatment. But hospitals at the BoP lose power, on average, 18 times per month, making surgery difficult. Here’s how Gradian Health Systems is addressing this challenge.
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- Health Care
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Maternal Health Startup Makes History As First ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Benefit Corporation In Michigan
A Michigan startup company founded by University of Michigan students has made legal history by becoming the first “do-it-yourself” benefit corporation in the state. Deborah Burand, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the International Transactions Clinic (ITC), reports.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Gambia: ‘Motorcycles Bring Universal Health Care Closer to Gambians’
The Gambia has been recognised for its success in bringing universal access to maternal health care closer to its citizens by becoming Africa's first country to have enough motorcycles and ambulances to deliver health care to the whole country, a press release from Riders For Health (RFH) revealed.
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