Our Projects
Since 2008, the Groundwork Initiative has completed over 60 projects for more than 40 host organizations in 13 countries. We're currently building a knowledge base of practical solutions to help many more. Browse our project portfolio below, or learn more about the types of projects we select.
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Tapping into Community Nursing to Improve Hospital Outcomes
LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more
Optimizing Clinical Nurse Managers’ Role for Healthy Births
LifeSpring Hospitals is a chain of maternity facilities providing high-quality affordable health care to low-income women in India. Read more
Paths to Sustainability and Impact for a Rural Hospital
Himalayan HealthCare (HHC) provides healthcare, education, and income generation to the remote mountain villages of Nepal. Read more
Combining Soccer and SMS to Improve Health Outcomes
Grassroot Soccer (GRS) was founded 2002 in Zimbabwe by former professional soccer players who saw the devastation of AIDS and sought to use soccer as an HIV prevention tool with programs designed to educate, inspire, and mobilize communities to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS. By 2012 GRS and its partners provided health and prevention education in schools and on soccer fields to roughly 100,000 youth aged 11-25 annually. Read more
National Market Entry Strategy for a New Anesthesia Machine
Gradian Health Systems, a New York headquartered company, aimed to equip hospitals to deliver anesthesia safely and economically with its Universal Anesthesia Machine (UAM), a CE-marked device designed for use in any hospital, including those where unreliable electricity and shortages of compressed medical gases preclude the use of conventional machines. Read more
Mapping the Market for Maternal Health Diagnostics in Botswana
In 2012, Daktari requested a second team of students to research potential opportunities in maternal health diagnostics in Botswana. Read more
Defining the Market for a Rugged Diagnostic Device
US based Daktari Diagnostics commercializes low-cost, rugged health diagnostics. Read more
Keys to Bringing a New Diagnostic Tool to Market
To support its planned launch in Kenya, Daktari engaged a student team to explore the company's options for supply chain, service, maintenance, and training that would best enable the novel machine to reach patients in need of testing. Read more
Leveraging Lab Capacity to Serve More Patients and Build Revenue
A leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa, the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) helps train medical professionals, deliver clinical care, and conduct research. Read more
Tackling bottlenecks across clinics to improve patient experience
In 2013, to stem a growing problem of patients dropping out of medical treatment largely as a result of long waiting times, CIDRZ asked a second student team to contribute insights and suggestions for addressing the inefficiencies of patient flow in treatment centers. Read more
Aligning Marketing, Pricing, and Delivery with Patient Preferences
Carolina for Kibera, or CFK, fights abject poverty and promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in East Africa’s largest slum. In partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control, CFK ran the Tabitha Clinic, a three-story facility in the heart of Kibera. Read more
Leveraging Data to Grow an HIV Management Business
CareWorks, a South African firm, provided HIV-related services to companies, medical insurers, and other organizations. Read more
Selecting Low-Cost Diagnostics for Hundreds of Rural Clinics
Hyderabad-based CARE Rural Health Mission (CRHM), a non-profit organization supported by and housed within the CARE Hospitals system, aimed to provide affordable, accessible primary care in rural areas. Read more
Hospital Market Positioning Amid a Changing Health Sector
CARE Hospitals evolved from a cardiac hospital to a chain of multi-specialty tertiary and quaternary care hospitals with 1600 beds in five Indian states that aimed to provide affordable, high quality services to a broad a segment of the country’s population, including lower-income segments. Read more
A Systematic Approach to Partnerships for the Largest NGO
BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, is a development organization based in Bangladesh dedicated to empowering the poor to bring about change in their own lives through interventions in healthcare, microfinance, education, and legal services. BRAC’s health-related services touched 100 million people in 2012. Read more