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JUNE 2015
FEATURE
Project Last Mile
The "Project Last Mile" (PLM) is a partnership supported by a unique set of actors, including The Coca-Cola company (TCCC), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. PLM builds institutional capacity to strengthen supply chains and the overall health system by sharing private sector expertise with government agencies that manage the procurement and distribution of medicines. PLM is looking to expand its impact to 10 countries in Africa by 2020. Read more
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Market Dynamics: A NextBillion E-Book
Read this great compilation of market shaping articles from NextBillion, including from CII's Senior Market Advisor Amy Lin.
VIDEOS
IDEA TO IMPACT: D-Rev and Brilliance: A Case Study in Advancing Global Health Technology
If you missed this excellent webinar highlighting CII's IDEA to IMPACT Guide and D-Rev's experiences navigating these development and scale challenges firsthand, watch it now.
RESEARCH & TOOLS
Fashioning a better Ebola suit with sewing machines and chocolate syrup
Watch CII's Director and Johns Hopkins University featured on PBS News hour highlighting the new Ebola suit sourced under the Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge.
INNOVATIONS
Designing a Device to Save Newborn Lives
PATH's Tom Furtwangler blogs about a collaboration, funded by Saving Lives at Birth, to refine a low-cost bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) kit and an oxygen blender into manufacturer-ready designs suitable for widespread distribution.
EVENTS
May 12, 2015–July 7, 2015
IDEO Human Centered Design Course
+Acumen Courses
June 25–28, 2015
Spotlight Health
Aspen Ideas Festival
July 13–16, 2015
Third International Conference on Financing for Development
United Nations
WHAT WE'RE READING
McKinsey & Company
The Eight Essentials of Innovation
The Stanford Social Innovation Review
Impact Investing in Global Health: Let's Get Flexible
Harvard Business Review
Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise
Vox
From Condoms to Toilets, Why Good Design Is Essential for Improving Global Health
Design Impact Group
Making the Case for Design in the Development Sector [PDF, 362KB]
CII NEWS
Fighting Ebola
West African Celebrities Launch a Song Contest in Guinea that Aims to Put an End to Ebola
May 20, 2015
Saving Lives at Brith
How Do We Measure the Impact of Grand Challenges?
April 30, 2015
ABC 7 WJLA
USAID Crowdsourcing Solutions to "Ebola Grand Challenge"
April 13, 2015
NEWS
Wired
Consulting Giant McKinsey Buys Itself a Top Design Firm
May 14, 2015
1776
Challenge Festival 2015's Two Health Finalists Announced
May 13, 2015
Quartz
NASA Technology Located Four Trapped Earthquake Victims in Nepal, by Detecting Their Heartbeats
May 7, 2015
NPR
How Tech Firms Are Helping People In The Nepal Earthquake Zone
April 27, 2015
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
JANINE HUM: MARKET ACCESS ADVISOR
"Above all I am inspired by the many stories of lives that have been saved or improved as a result of health advances driven by USAID over the last 50+ years and the knowledge that there are many more breakthroughs to come."
Read the full interview [PDF, 89KB]
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