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Opinion: Asia’s Pharma Investment Shows the Benefit of Patent Protection
Next month in New York the United Nations will launch its long-awaited High Level Report on access to medicines. The U.N. hopes this will resolve the debate around intellectual property rights and access to medicines.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- academia, public health
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Seven Questions for Career Seekers – Finding Your Niche in Sustainable Development
In the fifth and final post in a series exploring careers in social innovation and global sustainable development for STEM professionals, Khanjan Mehta gives advice on how to get your foot in the door and network in order to "test-drive" different organizations. At the end of the day, he says, it's all about finding the right fit.
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- Education
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Johns Hopkins Students Design Ebola Protection Suit Improvements
For health workers in the field treating people stricken with Ebola and other diseases, a protective suit is the first defense against infection. The suit and head covering itself, however, can hamper their ability to help by impeding breathing, or heating up so quickly in high temperatures and humidity that they can scarcely work for more than an hour.
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- Education, Health Care
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Students and professionals team up for first Ann Arbor Health Hackathon
The "hackathon" included 24 hours of health-related “hacking,” which involved teams pitching ideas and creating prototypes for solutions to health problems. The event focused on preventing disease in underserved areas of the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- North America
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Consent as Conversation: Lean research in vulnerable settings
Whether research unfolds in Harvard Square or a remote village, in our home communities or in a context with which we are newly familiar, we hope to question our assumptions on agency, power, risk, and vulnerability. In this post, the authors focus on making informed consent a truly meaningful process, particularly when conducting research in vulnerable settings.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – Lean Research: Introducing a Movement for Change
When used as a guiding framework, the principles of lean research have the potential to improve the quality and accuracy of the data gathered by social enterprises and other organizations, increase the usefulness of the data and enable the research process to generate benefits for communities, including improved relationships with local stakeholders and greater access to data for decision-making.
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- Impact Assessment
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Young Women Social Entrepreneurs Inspire Optimism in Sierra Leone
The Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship's Global Social Benefit Institute works with passionate social entrepreneurs, whose work ranges from using drones to do last-mile distribution of medicines, to working with high school kids to help them solve problems they see in their communities. Pamela Roussos, senior director at the Miller Center, shares two women-led enterprises from their Sierra Leone workshop that stood out as especially inspiring.
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- Social Enterprise
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- academia
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NexThought Monday: Would You Give Up Your Cellphone to Save a Child?
Last fall, University of San Francisco professor Bruce Wydick presented his students with a confounding challenge: If everybody in the classroom were to make a $50 direct cash transfer, he said, they could potentially save a poor Ugandan child's life. In fact, he added, a donor had pledged to give $50 through GiveDirectly for every student, on one simple condition: They had to part with their cell phones for two weeks. Wydick describes the fallout in this thought-provoking post.
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- Technology