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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

The Myelin Repair Foundation is creating a process for the rapid development of new treatments and cures.

A new generation of architects and designers are raising expectations for the public interest design movement.

Exploring open spaces, parks, gardens, and trails as tools for social impact.

How, and when, is the right time to focus on food education, not simply food security?

The best way to help the ultra poor is not by giving them a handout, but by giving them an opportunity.

In a session at the Opportunity Collaboration, stories were shared on the power and importance of community decision-making.

Workplace wellness councils are emerging as one of the most powerful leaders in reducing health care costs and improving health.

An interview with Stephen Friend about using using open source to encourage collaboration and share health information.

The problem of unhealthy cafeteria food in public schools, how it contributes to obesity in America, and measures we can take to stop it.

Social enterprise Mirakle Couriers offers standard courier services and employs only deaf adults.

Carolina for Kiberia's community focus promises to effect change that will stick.

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.

Park discusses how methods of efficiency developed in industries outside of health care need to be brought in to rework the health care industry.

Psychologist and innovator Dr. BJ Fogg discusses his model which outlines techniques to stop or decrease behaviors that are unhealthy or start or increase more healthful habits.

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler discusses how we define the cultural norm for food consumption and what role our government should play in regulating food companies.

CDC Deputy Director for Policy and Communication Donald Shriber speaks about how the agency coordinates and manages its efforts and resources to respond to emerging threats to global health.

Dr. David Shern, CEO of Mental Health America, and Father Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the potential of nonprofits as catalysts for innovation in health care reform.

Stanford Professor Robert Proctor presents scholarly research and advocates for pressure against the forces of the tobacco industry.