New Nepal Quake Adds Urgency to Relief Efforts
The world has quickly mobilized to help the Himalayan country, but aid workers have been dealing with unique challenges such as mountainous valleys walled off with landslides, roads severed by rock avalanches and collapsed bridges.
Lessons from Latin America on STEM Education
Savvy Row: A Better Suit For Fighting Ebola
Here’s an idea for a smarter business suit, if your business is fighting Ebola or some other deadly infectious disease.
Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation
Innovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology, behavior, policies or market forces. Innovating life-saving solutions for the world’s greatest health challenges, whether they are products or services, is also not easy because the patterns are complex — and sometimes unknown.
Mark Masselli and Daren Anderson: Project ECHO Empowers Providers at the Frontlines of Care
This need is particularly acute when treating poor and underserved populations. But a new tool that leverages technology to link specialists with primary care providers is making big inroads, with the hope of reaching 1 billion people by 2025.
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Coalition Fights Ebola at the Outbreak’s Invisible Frontline in Remote African Rainforest
The launch platform in which I participated was a pop-up, three-week innovation and manufacturing center where aspiring makers, entrepreneurs, and students could go to develop new skills and learn about advanced manufacturing technologies.
Today, business leaders support schools through efforts that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak educational system, but fundamentally inadequate for helping to strengthen the system. Consequently, it’s time for America’s business leaders to reinvent how they partner with educators to support our students and improve our schools. That is the central message emerging from a year-long study by the faculty of Harvard Business School’s U.S.
Despite all-time highs for graduation rates, significant education gaps still persist. We have seen improvements in equal access to elementary and secondary education, yet there is still more that needs to be done to increase opportunities for students to attend college by better preparing them for post-secondary education.
No one program design, no one donor, and no one building block of democratic societies has been or will be enough. Rather, a continued commitment to local capacity building and investment in institutions is what has been proven to make a difference in the long term.