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The Model T Meets Development Tech: Changing the business model for global health data collection
There’s a lack of data in international development and global health, because collection can be time-consuming and expensive. Magpi seeks to lower the cost and speed up the process through mass production and standardization; the firm’s applications enable people in the ?eld to collect data on any mobile device.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Sorry, Kids, Changing the World Takes More Than a Killer App
On Wednesday, Bill Clinton will present the Hult Prize at the Clinton Global Initiative meetings in New York. The $1 million award will go to a team of young social entrepreneurs with a business idea to improve lives in developing countries.
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- Education, Technology
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- research
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Checking Out Solar at the ‘Light Library’: SunnyMoney designed a distribution model allowing customers to test products before buying
Over the years SunnyMoney, SolarAid’s social enterprise and one of the largest sellers of solar lights in Africa has been inundated with requests to use and test the lights to help build trust and demand without undermining a sustainable market. In response SunnyMoney designed the Light Library, a distribution model that gives would-be customers that opportunity.
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- distribution, research, solar
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How Price Discrimination is Good for Global Health (Part 2): Patricia Danzon describes how the concept, despite its theoretical upside, ‘is not working very well’ in practice
?In Part 1 of her interview with NBHC, professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania laid out some of the advantages of differential pricing in pharmaceuticals. In Part 2, she describes how the concept works in practice, including the key role of politics in its implementation.
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- Education, Health Care
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Japanese Global Health Fund awards $33.5 million to develop vaccines, drugs for neglected diseases
The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), a new public health partnership that is bringing Japanese know-how and investment to the global fight against infectious diseases, today announced seven grant investments totaling US$15.3 million to speed the development of promising drugs and vaccines to battle three insect-borne diseases—malaria, dengue and Chagas disease.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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How Price Discrimination is Good for Global Health (Part 1): Professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School discusses differential pricing in pharmaceuticals
Professor Patricia Danzon of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, discusses differential pricing -- sometimes called price discrimination -- which she maintains increases utilization of medicines and, therefore, overall social welfare.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research, supply chains
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Amex to Crowdsource Financial-Inclusion Ideas from Academics
It's like the opposite of "Not Invented Here" Syndrome.
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- Education, Technology
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Johnson & Johnson Announces New Grant to Harvard Medical School to Combat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Johnson & Johnson today announced its affiliate Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Janssen) has entered into a novel collaboration with Harvard Medical School to address critical gaps in the global struggle against tuberculosis (TB).
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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