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Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Passionate, and You Just Might Change the World
You know that sinking, cold feeling you get when you know something is bad, but when you really begin investigating, it turns out that the situation is much worse than you even anticipated? Now what if that problem is the safety of health care workers and the integrity of blood samples collected to diagnose and treat health issues like HIV/AIDS? Renuka Gadde traveled to medical facilities around the world to prove her theory that blood collection techniques and protocols were a weak point in health care systems. What she observed was even more alarming than she expected.
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- Health Care
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Three Global Health Successes That I Witnessed Firsthand
Somewhere bumping along the back roads in Mali, Nick Kristof challenged me to reflect on lessons learned from my 25 years working in Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s and most recently on public health and nutrition programs for Helen Keller International.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ChipCare’s handheld analyzer attracts one of Canada’s largest-ever healthcare angel investments
An innovative, handheld point-of-care analyzer, developed by ChipCare Corporation, has secured one of the largest ever angel investments in Canada's healthcare sector. Phase II financing has closed, with an investment of $2.05M to support ChipCare's continuing development and commercialization over the next three years.The financing evolved through a uniquely collaborative funding model among Canadian social angel investors, including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation and the University of Toronto, with special financing leadership from Grand Challenges Canada and the Government of Canada.
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- Health Care
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Keeping Up with the Indians: Exploring emerging practices in a health care innovation powerhouse
Extending health services to the 350 million living below the poverty line in India is no easy task. But due to necessity and ingenuity, the country has become a vibrant testing ground for new solutions that help meet the needs of its large, diverse population. In this post from CHMI, Aarthi Rao explores some of the approaches that have made India a powerhouse in health care innovation.
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- Health Care
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A Growing Network of Global Health Innovators: CHMI announces new partners and strategy to scale up cutting-edge health care solutions
The Center for Health Market Innovations (CMHI) recently expanded its network of regional partners. These organizations are working to catalyze the scale-up, replication and improvement of innovative health care delivery programs in countries like Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Kenya. CHMI invites the NextBillion community to connect with these partners.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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“If you teach a man to fish…”: The NSDC’s efforts to provide job training to 150 million Indians – part 2
We’ve all heard the proverb about how teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime. But how can a country provide modern job skills to hundreds of millions? India’s National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) may have found a way. In part 2 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses its efforts to train 150 million Indians, including the country’s poorest communities.
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- Education
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How to Train 150 Million: The National Skill Development Corporation’s ambitious plan to remake India’s workforce – part 1
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a unique public-private partnership in India. Its mission is to skill 150 million Indians by 2022, by catalyzing the creation of vocational training institutions through joint ventures with the private sector. In part 1 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses the program’s challenges and potential.
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- Education