CIDRZ recently hosted four graduate business/consultant students from the US-based MIT Sloan School of Management Groundwork Initiative for Global Health. Their project was to explore management innovations and practices to improve healthcare delivery and specifically to identify ways to decrease patient wait times in the ART Pharmacy Department at the extremely busy Kanyama Health Centre, […] Continue Reading
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April 5, 2013 – The Megh Bahadur Parajuli Community Hospital, opened by Himalayan Health Care (HHC)—a non profit organisation—in 2004, is the only community hospital in Ilam. The hospital introduced a new approach to healthcare in the district, standing as an example of sustainability in community hospitals in the few first years of its establishment. […] Continue Reading
June 22, 2012 – by Alice Waugh Could raising chickens lead to a healthier human population in Mbarara, Uganda? That’s the question Mary Anito (LGO ’12) and her teammate tried to answer during the Global Health Delivery Lab class, or ghdLab. Anito was one of two LGO students who spent two weeks in Africa this […] Continue Reading
Spring 2012 – In the past four years, MIT Sloan’s Global Health Delivery Lab (ghdLAB) has covered a good deal of ground—tens of thousands of miles, in fact. With some 40 projects completed on African and Indian soil, and another set of student teams overseas in March 2012, MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Anjali Sastry said […] Continue Reading
April 27, 2011 – by Jason Straziuso The clinic’s paperwork carried a common medical symbol – a snake coiling around a wooden rod. But that simple insignia sparked a rumor in Nairobi’s largest slum: The U.S.-funded clinic was a center for snake worshipping. For the poor residents of Kibera, who have little exposure to the […] Continue Reading
March 26, 2011 – HYDERABAD: A dozen students of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) are working on projects at two major private hospitals here, including Care Hospital and its rural health mission, to solve strategic and market issues related to their business models. Continue Reading… Continue Reading
October 11, 2010 – by Rahim Kanani I recently sat down with David Schmittlein, Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, to discuss, in great depth, the school’s philosophy of making a difference in the world and its social contract with society, business ethics, the integration of disciplines in research […] Continue Reading
by Rebecca Knight How can giving a health care worker in Zimbabwe access to a motorcycle dramatically decrease the rate of malarial infection in rural villages? That’s just one question posed by global health delivery, an emerging field that employs some of the best minds not only in medicine, but also in economics, business and […] Continue Reading
