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It’s Almost Impossible to Convince People They’re Wrong
The Havell's coffee maker add and mHealth successes are just two examples of how it's so much easier to introduce a new product, service...
May 24, 20142 min read


The Best Innovation Toolkits
Post updated in December 2015 to include Business Model Generator (see below) For my current assignment, we have been tasked to create an...
May 5, 20145 min read


Design thinking and public health: an interview with IDEO Public Health Specialist Carla Lopez
Back in the day, Carla and I were neighbours and classmates at UNC SPH. Carla since went on to work for PSI in Haiti and Papua New Guinea...
Apr 5, 20146 min read


Does public health practice punish the poor?
“The quasi-religious belief in the power of the individual to overcome their own problems, embedded deeply in Anglo-American culture, and...
Apr 5, 20143 min read


Dallas Buyer's Club: Getting a Public Health Education at the Movies
A movie about an AIDS-riven Texan “good-old boy” who distributes unapproved drugs, is a clear Oscar contender, and a public health...
Feb 16, 20143 min read
Reimagining Public Health Education
What is the value of the “global” in “global health”? “Global health is an attitude. It is a way of looking at the world. It is about the...
Jan 5, 20143 min read


Innovations in Monitoring: Biometrics
Who is who? Robust personal identification is an important part of service provision and patient tracking across the continuum of care....
Aug 20, 20137 min read


The Fun and Games of Social Networks. A Review of Connected.
Christakis and Fowler have written a book (actually, a while ago, it was published in 2010) compiling available research on the power of...
Jun 15, 20133 min read


Building the Nursing Cadre: The Promise of M-Learning
Nurses are one of the key building blocks of the health system; and comprise roughly 30% of the health workforce.[1] Tackling any health...
Jun 1, 20133 min read


Making Maps
I have always loved sitting with an atlas on my lap, tracing my finger across different maps and plotting my next journey; by camel...
Apr 8, 20132 min read


Best resources on scale up, replication and institutionalization….
**Updated in 2017, including a new resource on scaling up social enterprises, see below. When we look at current inequities in access to...
Apr 3, 20137 min read


Most inspiring public health books…
I always love the Christmas and New Year season, when all the “best books of the year” lists come out in all the newspapers. So I...
Mar 24, 20138 min read