Although I generally don’t like Contests, they do exist, and sometimes participation is important. Earlier this year a partnership of the Gates Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USAID and [...]
Those of us who work in the “social good” arena professionally come in contact with many good causes to support. This is the first of periodic “thematic” blog posts on [...]
This past weekend I participated in the Global Health & Innovation conference sponsored by Unite for Site and hosted by Yale University. The conference discussions were for me a ‘check’ [...]
In June of 2010 I wrote about the launch of the Helping Babies Breathe Global Development Alliance and then provided some updated information here in November and on the Global [...]
In preparation for a session that will be discussing global health trends, I have been thinking about how the field has changed in the past decade. Some of the trends [...]
The annual Blog Action Day is this year focused on water. Take a few minutes with me to focus on this important issue. In some ways I’ve had water conservation [...]
For the past 20+ years I have worked with nonprofits, NGOs, associations and others that have had “good ideas” that have spread around the world, sometimes strategically, more often in [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one million babies die each year from birth asphyxia (eg. inability to breathe immediately after delivery). A few years ago a group of [...]