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Health

A Healthier City

San Francisco’s five-year-old universal health care program sees positive results.

By Meredith May | Winter 2012
 

Food

A Win-Win for Haiti

Partners in Health and Abbott Laboratories are building a new plant in Corporant, Haiti to produce a therapeutic food called Nourimanba.

By Suzie Boss | 1 | Winter 2012
 

Health

Global Diseases, Local Needs

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | 2 | Winter 2012
 

Socially Responsible Business

Specialists’ Niche

A Danish company finds jobs for people with autism.

By Suzie Boss | Winter 2012
 
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Health

Opportunities in Mobile Health

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.

By Jaspal S. Sandhu | 8 | Fall 2011
 
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Water

Water Thinking

The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.

By Rajesh Shah | 13 | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Foundations as Investors

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.

By John Goldstein & Margaret Laws | 1 | Fall 2011
 
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Impact Investing

Investing for the Safety Net

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

By Stefanos Zenios & Lyn Denend | Fall 2011
 

Health

Undisclosed Pharma Contributions

Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Reinventing Health Care Services

A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.

By Arnold Milstein | Fall 2011