29Oct 2019 by Jane Shealy

Accelerating the Process of Saving Lives at Birth

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The Global Health Innovation Center's innovation assessment framework is one of many tools developed to assess the support needs of a portfolio of global health innovators. While this frameworkwas developed to help us better support the innovators in our program, this tool can also be helpful to other stakeholders supporting global health innovators as they consider what type of scaling help might be needed. The framework helps accelerator programs design activities that support the growth of innovators. The tool provides a data collection framework to evaluate individual innovator progress and the effectiveness of accelerators in helping innovators progress along their scaling pathway. The framework also serves as a self- assessment tool for early-stage global health innovators, providing the means for a more objective self-evaluation to understand their stage of growth…
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29Oct 2019 by Jane Shealy
We’re all about saving lives

We’re all about saving lives

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Duke's Global Health Innovation Center brought its Accelerating Saving Lives at Birth program to share with other participants in the Global Grand Challenges Summit this week in Ethiopia. The summit is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solvekey global health and development problems, and it is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Accelerating Saving Lives at Birth (A-SL@B) program, launched in January 2018, is a next-generation accelerator that supports select Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) innovators. A-SL@B amplifies the impact of promising maternal and newborn health innovations by assisting organizations in reaching scale and sustainability with evidence of impact. The A-SL@B program focuses on four areas of innovator support critical to successful scaling: Market, Business Model, Team, and Product/Service Innovation. Our proven capacity-strengthening strategy for innovators…
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08Oct 2019 by Jane Shealy
Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the GHIC and IiH, gives keynote address at Asia Pacific MedTech Forum

Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the GHIC and IiH, gives keynote address at Asia Pacific MedTech Forum

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Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the GHIC and IiH, gave the keynote address--Defining the Future of Health: Innovations to Transform Health Systems and Improve Health--at the Asia Pacific MedTech Forum 2019. In his address Udayakumar talked about the connection between poverty and healthcare. While extreme poverty is declining, it's declining too slowly, he said. "At this pace, only 39%-63% of the population will have access to essential health services by 2030." At the same time, out-of-pocket costs for healthcare are rising. In 2015, 930 million individuals spent more than 10% of their household income on healthcare; the number of families impoverished by out-of-pocket health expenditures is growing. These barriers to affordable, quality healthcare present an opportunity for innovators who understand the needs of consumers, use digital technology, develop asset-light business models,…
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