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June 2017
FEATURE
Human-centered Design for Global Health
Human-centered Design for Global Health
The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII) and Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) led qualitative research applying the human-centered design (HCD) process in Uganda and South Africa to better understand potential users of the dapivirine (DPV) ring – the first long-acting woman-controlled method for reducing the risk of HIV infection – in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, CII and OHA recently launched a new HCD publication The Dapivirine Ring Design Guide: Human-centered Design Research to Increase Uptake and Use. This guide uses an HCD approach to create design concepts and tools to increase the adoption and sustained use of the DPV ring. The guide is available online at www.usaid.gov/cii/human-centered-design.
INNOVATION
Check out this article by CII's Karen Clune on The Practitioner Hub called XChanges and Xcelerators: How "Saving Lives at Birth" Helps Innovators Reach the Next Level. This piece highlights the Saving Lives at Birth partnership and how it supports the development and scale-up of more than 100 groundbreaking innovations through community networking and educational events as well as targeted business model support.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Raj Panjabi, the founder of Last Mile Health and winner of the 2017 TED Prize, recently gave the keynote TED talk on community health workers. Panjabi also launched a new platform called Community Health Academy to train, empower, and connect community health workers around the world. This initiative is supported by two of CII's partnerships, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health and the Financing Alliance for Health.
PARTNERSHIP
On June 8, Project Last Mile (PLM) announced its expansion into Liberia and Swaziland to strengthen local health systems. PLM is a partnership supported by CII, as well as the Coca-Cola Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, that builds institutional capacity to strengthen supply chains and the overall health system by transferring Coca-Cola's logistics management expertise to government agencies that manage the procurement and distribution of medicines.
HUMAN-CENTERED
DESIGN
This May, USAID's Global Health monthly newsletter focused on human-centered design (HCD), highlighting work from CII as well as USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS and Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, including HCD work involving chlorhexidine, oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and Ebola innovations. Read the newsletter.
INNOVATION
Check out this POLITICO article Government by Prize featuring the Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge and highlighting the prize model as a way of donor funding to support the development of game-changing innovations.
EVENTS
June 14–15, 2017
2017 Social Impact Exchange Conference
Morgan Stanley, New York City, New York
June 14, 2017
Pathways to Scale Webinar [PDF, 2.4MB]
USAID/CII & VentureWell, Washington, D.C.
June 20–23, 2017
International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control
International Consortium for Prevention & Infection Control, Geneva, Switzerland
June 22–25, 2017
Aspen Ideas Spotlight Health
The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado
WHAT WE'RE READING
Global Accelerator Learning Initiative
Accelerating Startups in Emerging Markets: Insights from 43 Programs
The University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool Podcast
Next Billion
Four Ways Digital Finance Can Prepare for the Next Wave of Mobile Money Disruption
Stanford Social Innovation Review
To Spur Innovation, U.S. Colleges and Companies Must Collaborate Better
Forbes
To Spur Innovation, U.S. Colleges and Companies Must Collaborate Better
CII NEWS
Premise
USAID Combating Zika & Future Threats Innovation Challenge
May 30, 2017
U.S. Department of State Official Blog
Nigeria Commits to Scaling Up Use of Antiseptic Gel to Reduce Newborn Deaths
May 12, 2017
FHI 360 R&E Search for Evidence
Applying the Power of Partnership to Evaluation of a Long-acting Contraceptive
May 8, 2017
The National Academies of Sciences featuring CII's work
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
May 15, 2017
The Practitioner Hub featuring Saving Lives at Birth
Building the Bridge Across the (Scale-up) Valley of Death
May 31, 2017
NEWS
PATH
New WHO Designation for Oxygen Could Save Thousands of Lives Globally
June 7, 2017
The New York Times
WHO Elects Ethiopia's Tedros as First Director General from Africa
May 23, 2017
The Guardian
Ebola Outbreak Declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo after Three Die
May 12, 2017
BBC
Price of "Exciting" Self-injectable Contraceptive Cut
May 9, 2017
TIME
How Nations Should Respond to the Next Pandemic
May 3, 2017
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Joseph Wilson: Senior Market Access Advisor
"One of the most enjoyable aspects of working at USAID, and the Center in particular, is being surrounded by people who are passionate about working on big global problems, such as reducing preventable child deaths or developing new technologies to combat infectious disease."
Read the full interview [PDF, 271KB].
Photo credits: ABC news and Stanford University Dalberg Design Impact Group, James Gathany/U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Associated Press, Rice University, http://www.ebolagrandchallenge.net.
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