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MAY 2017
FEATURE
ABC News Features Combating Zika & Future Threats Grantee Vayu
On April 18th, ABC News's Nightline featured a Combating Zika and Future Threats grantee’ work with drones in Madagascar with a mention of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) collaboration. Vayu is being funded to develop, pilot and evaluate the potential to scale the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to strengthen national health systems’ coverage, reach and responsiveness to address existing and future health threats.
Watch the video.
INNOVATION
On March 31st, the Atlantic featured Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge grantee Stanford University for its innovation MosquitoFreq, a mobile application that detects mosquito species using wingbeat frequencies.
EVENTS
USAID CII co-hosted an event on March 20th parallel to the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women with the International Partnership for Microbicides, AVAC, the Dalberg Design Impact Group (DIG) and the NGO Commission on the Status of Women Forum. The session sought to better understand the lives of adolescent girls and young women who might use the dapivirine ring microbicide. Learn more about CII's work with human-centered design.
PARTNERSHIP
Check out this Huffington Post article on the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health), a partnership between USAID CII, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and many others to empower leaders and strengthen community health systems in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Malawi.
INNOVATION
Reminder! Applications for the newest Grand Challenge for Development, Ensuring Effective Health Supply Chains, are due on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 2:30 pm, U.S. EST. USAID PRH, with support from CII, launched the Grand Challenge, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on March 7th, calling for innovative and transformative solutions to build more effective supply chains in low- and middle-income countries around the world.
EVENTS
May 4, 2017
Deep Dive: A Workshop in Practical Strategies for Implementing Digital Financial Services
USAID Global Health, Crystal City, Virginia
May 8 – May 9, 2017
World Health Summit Regional Meeting
Université de Montréal & Institut de recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
May 11, 2017
Using Technology to Advance Global Health: A Workshop
The National Academies of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
May 10 – May 12, 2017
WHO Global Forum on Medical Devices
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
May 22 – May 31, 2017
70th World Health Assembly
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
WHAT WE'RE READING
Vulcan Productions
Unseen Enemy Documentary on Pandemics
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Solving the World’s Biggest Problems: Better Philanthropy through Systems Change
Mashable
9 Brilliant Ways Drones Can Help Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems
IDEO U
How to Overcome Barriers to Innovation in Your Organization
FCW
9 Things to Look for in an Open-source Project
The Lancet
The Global Financing Facility – towards a New Way of Financing for Development
CII NEWS
The Huffington Post featuring Financing Alliance for Health
In Sierra Leone, Ensuring Sustainable Financing for Community Health
March 28, 2017
The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health featuring CII
Strengthening the United States Government’s Role in Product Development in Global Health
[PDF, 1.08MB]
February 28, 2017
GBC Health featuring Ebola Grantee
Innovations in Global Health: Kinnos, Inc. and Highlight
April 25, 2017
NEWS
The Huffington Post
Neglect No More: Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases Helps Us All
March 20, 2017
Vanguard
Investing in Maternal Health Can Save Nigeria $1.5B Annually
March 22, 2017
Fortune
Last Mile Health’s Raj Panjabi Named One of Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders
March 23, 2017
The Economist
The Findings of Medical Research Are Disseminated Too Slowly
March 25, 2017
Fast Company featuring Last Mile Health
Can an Army of Tech-equipped Health Workers Bring Medicine to Remote Villages?
April 7, 2017
Devex
The World Bank’s New CEO Kristalina Georgieva Lays Out Her Vision for an Agile Bank
April 17, 2017
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
AVERY WAITE: PROGRAM ANALYST
"Not only are we able to convene some of the brightest minds in the world to develop innovative solutions to global health challenges, but we are also able to play a coordinating role across government agencies and non-governmental organizations."
Read the full interview [PDF, 213KB].
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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