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- May 24, 2014
- 2 min
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 5, 2014
- 5 min
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...
- Apr 5, 2014
- 6 min
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, 2014
- 3 min
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...
- Feb 16, 2014
- 3 min
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...
- Jan 5, 2014
- 3 min
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...
- Aug 20, 2013
- 7 min
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....
- Jun 15, 2013
- 3 min
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 1, 2013
- 3 min
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...
- Apr 8, 2013
- 2 min
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 3, 2013
- 7 min
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...
- Mar 24, 2013
- 8 min
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...