My time in Davos this year re-affirmed the value of engagement and partnerships to drive action. It also highlighted the unique and privileged position that Duke University holds as an institution engaged at the highest levels across public and private sectors in its efforts to improve health globally.
Chlorhexidine cord care saved thousands of newborn lives in Nepal Author: Leela Khanal, JSI Nepal (Accelerating SL@B advisory board member) Sepsis in the first week or two of life is a major cause of newborn deaths. Deeply rooted cultural practices
The I in Innovation By Alden Zecha and Katherine Flowers Growing an innovation from an idea to initial offering to scale is a unique journey along a path with many turns and forks along the way. Through my work with
Assistant Director of Programs Elina Urli Hodges represents IiH and GHIC this week at the 2019 World Conference on Access to Medical Products–Achieving the SDGs 2030 in New Delhi, India. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, government of
Duke Global Health Innovation Center’s Arthur Huang, Senior Manager of Programs, and Krishna Udayakumar, Director, welcomed Beijing Anding Hospital leaders to Duke University on November 11 for the start of a two-week Hospital Leadership training. This program includes presentations on
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,
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
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
The inaugural Duke University School of Medicine Research Week will be held from Monday, October 14 through Thursday, October 17, 2019 on the sixth floor of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education. Activities for the week will include presentations
