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This Antiseptic Was Brought to You By …: USAID guide mimics some market practices to speed ‘bench to bedside’
When it comes to global health, “people are good at inventing things but not always good at reaching scale,” according to David Milestone, senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. That’s why USAID developed “IDEA to IMPACT: A Guide to Introduction and Scale of Global Health Innovations,” which officially debuted on Monday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Promising Practices: CHMI highlights 71 pro-poor innovations improving health care around the world
The Center for Health Market Innovations has released its annual report, "Highlights: Findings From 2014," which identifies health care programs and policies, documents and analyzes promising practices, and spotlights programs with potential for scale up and adaptation within and across borders.
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- Health Care
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Corporations are the Missing Link: Private sector is uniquely positioned to improve newborn survival in India
India accounts for 27 percent of global newborn deaths, the highest in the world. Dasra, a Mumbai-based strategic philanthropy foundation, has been conducting research which highlights a critical “missing link” that can help India address newborn survival at scale: corporates.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘One Foot on a Glacier and the Other on a Bullet Train’: Forum participants discuss moving mHealth toward national health system integration
With so many apps and intervention techniques available in the private and public sectors, there is now more than ever a greater focus on these applications’ abilities to integrate and work as a system. When multiple structures are integrated into a single comprehensive design, governments can plan health systems that connect electronic and mobile interventions.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health, scale
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Working from the Inside Out : IDB’s inaugural conference on scaling corporate social enterprise explores building bridges
Last month the Inter-American Development Bank and its associate organizations organized in the first-ever Scaling Corporate Social Enterprise Conference in Santiago, Chile. Entrepreneurs and "intrapreneurs" shared experiences during the event, which allowed reflection over the obstacles each one finds when attempting to scale their social change models.
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- Uncategorized
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- scale
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Unlocking the Potential of Nigeria’s Private Sector: A look behind the $24 million pledge for health innovations
Nigerian business leaders have made a $24 million commitment, through the Private Sector Healthcare Alliance of Nigeria, to focus on maternal and child mortality reductions for the Saving One Million Lives initiative.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Gates Foundation Alters Course in Pursuit of Breakthroughs: New Grand Challenges reflect that innovation and scale go hand in hand
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its Grand Challenges Annual Meeting last week and announced three new challenges ... with a twist. Going forward, applicants will be required to partner with manufacturers, biomedical companies or others with expertise in product development before Gates will fund a project.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing, scale
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The ‘Scrappy Rockstar’ of Global Health?: Maternova using Amazon-type platform to help save lives of mothers, infants in developing world
Maternova, a women-owned, women-run, for-profit social enterprise, has been described as "an Amazon-type platform, but for global health technologies." Allyson Cote, a co-founder, describes how her company is helping save the lives of mothers and infants in developing countries around the world.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise