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  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…

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,…

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 from four School of Medicine faculty members, a Duke Office of Scientific Integrity (DOSI) Research Town Hall, the Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture, Innovation Jam, a Clinical Keynote Lecture, and a poster session featuring the research of residents, trainees and PhD students from clinical and basic science departments. CME Accredited: Each daily 1 hour lecture(s) is designated for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Check-in and lunch will begin daily at 11:30 a.m. Boxed lunches provided. Event Registration

[caption id="attachment_807" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Dr. Krishna Udayakumar (Director, Duke Global Health Innovation Center) and Dr. Robert Eick (Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy), and members of the China NHSA delegation outside the Duke Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, NC. Photo by Emily McAndrew.[/caption] The Duke Global Health Innovation Center (GHIC) in partnership with the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy hosted a delegation from China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) for a week-long health policy and leadership training in August. The training was held at Duke University in Durham, NC, and consisted of classroom lectures, site visits, and social gatherings where the delegation had the chance to learn from a wide range of US experts, healthcare leaders, Duke faculty and researchers. The training focused on the…