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Ennovent, University Impact Fund Reveal New Research on the Business of Health Care in India: The industry will reach $280 billion by 2020
Estimates project that the Indian health care industry will grow from its current value of $40 billion to $280 billion by 2020. Yet resource shortages in low-income markets have resulted in a lack of quality health care that is affordable and accessible. And NGOs aren’t addressing many of these markets’ greatest needs. New research from Ennovent and the University Impact Fund reveals a wealth of opportunities for businesses to fill this gap.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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A New Business Model for Farmers in the Nutrient Economy
You could argue that a more comprehensive, albeit wonky, word for farmer is “nutrient steward.” Unfortunately, most farmers are only compensated for their end products, like corn and cotton. In reality, however, farmers are stewarding the nutrient processes that result in these end products. So why shouldn’t they be compensated for these services?
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Africa: Closing the Gap – Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nutrients For All: Envisioning a new food system
Being fully nourished is a must for good health, but in an alarming global trend, our foods are losing nutrients at each stage of our environmental and food systems. We need to ensure that vital nutrients are generated, preserved, and conveyed from soil to food, and from food markets to people. Our health, human productivity and economics depend on it.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Q&A: Inovio CEO on DNA Vaccines
One area of biotechnology that has drawn a lot of attention in recent years is DNA vaccines.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Here’s how many fewer AIDS patients would be treated after sequestration
Members of Congress have left Washington without having made a deal to avoid the deep across-the-board spending cuts to federal agencies slated to begin March 1, and agency heads are already lamenting the potential damage to both foreign and domestic programs.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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6 Innovations that will change health care
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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