Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

A community-based program in rural Kentucky uses face-to-face social networks to promote wellness.

The knowledge, skill, and compassion of the health care community can help stop modern slavery.

Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.

Does granting people priority for organ allocation affect their willingness to become organ donors?

Traditional cookstoves are being recognized as a major health hazard.

D-Rev delivers affordable health care innovation to the places that need it most.

e-waste recycling in Agbogbloshie provides a livelihood for thousands of people, but it also results in a heavily polluted environment.

When it comes to expanding medical supply chains in the developing world, there is much to be learned from Coca-Cola’s global-scale production and distribution model.

YMCA and other national nonprofit networks are using their reach into local communities to deliver public health programs.

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Research shows that healthcare social enterprises are segmenting the BOP and leaving the bottom 50 percent of consumers behind.

A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.

Advance market commitments can help solve global development problems impaired by market failure.

Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Lessons for entrepreneurs abound in the new biography on Molly Melching’s work.

We can improve healthcare outcomes by reducing gender inequality.

A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.

A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.

Researchers explore the effects of virtual embodiment among people with Parkinson’s disease.

A cleaner, more decentralized energy system will provide a healthier and more secure future.

Stanford business professor Jennifer Aaker discusses how social media can do more than just provide entertainment—it can also prolong or save lives.

Eric Dishman, director of health innovation at Intel, asserts that mobile technologies can create sustainable healthcare for all.

Michele Barry, Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine at Stanford leads a distinguished group of global health professionals who have created innovative programs to benefit their respective countries’ health services.

Using simulation and systems engineering to improve outcomes and address the ballooning cost of healthcare.

Using workflow automation and tracking solutions to address the needs of the acute care hospital marketplace.

Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.

In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.

Focusing on unmet needs, healthcare entrepreneurs provide their in-the-trenches perspectives on advancing medical technologies. Working to extend and enhance lives.

John Capek talks about ways we can improve the potential success for technologies in order to improve the delivery of healthcare over the next decade.

Representatives from various investment firms explain the medical innovation funding landscape, and advise early stage innovators with creative ways to navigate these complexities.