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Duke University is releasing today (Thursday, June 18, 2020) the results of its two-year evaluation of the Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) Grand Challenge for Development. Co-led by the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Duke Global Health Institute Evidence Lab, the  evaluation  seeks to examine SL@B in the global landscape of maternal and newborn health (MNH) innovation funding, understand the role of SL@B in filling a gap in MNH innovation funding, and analyze the impact of SL@B on sourcing and scaling MNH innovations between 2011 and 2020. The evaluation utilized a quantitative and qualitative mixed-methods approach using multiple sources of data and produced several work products in the form of reports and briefs, culminating in the report released today. The Enduring Challenge: Maternal and Newborn Mortality In 2015, WHO…

Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center Duke Health has been a member of the World Economic Forum for the past 10 years, positioning Duke University to play a leading role in addressing the world’s most pressing health concerns. Innovations in Healthcare, a Duke-hosted non-profit that I have the privilege of leading, was incubated through the World Economic Forum in 2009-11 and launched at Davos in 2011. Co-founded by Duke, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum, Innovations in Healthcare supports the scale and impact of promising innovations. In the past eight years, we have curated a network of 92 innovators who are improving healthcare across the globe, and we have brought together dozens of companies, foundations, and government agencies to build strong partnerships to support these…

  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 India, along with the World Health Organization is hosting the event Nov. 19-21. Public health stakeholders from around the world are meeting to exchange ideas on how to achieve WHO’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This ambitious global agenda aimed at ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages is in keeping with the goals of IiH and GHIC in ending health disparities worldwide. We are excited to participate in the conference and look forward to sharing lessons learned with our innovators and funders.   http://ow.ly/tmKx50xg4IL

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 clinical research, hospital IT and informatics, safety and quality, strategic human resource management, patient care, strategic management practices, quality improvement, leadership development, and patient safety. Presenters include: Ted Pappas, MD, Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, Duke University School of Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Surgical Innovation, Duke University Chief, Division of Advanced Oncologic and GI Surgery Lisa Pickett, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Duke University, and Chief Medical Officer and Trauma and Critical Care Surgeon, Duke University Hospital Jonathan G. Bae, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Patient Safety…

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…