Should the Heart Institute of the Caribbean expand to West Africa? Student observations on the organization’s success and future goals In late 2010, a small team of MIT students took a look at the organization from the outside and, as a course assignment, prepared an executive summary aimed at its board of directors. This article […] Continue Reading
A brand-new special issue of BMC International Health and Human Rights features a special collection on Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. The papers present examples from Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda of how science and technology innovations are connected to entrepreneurship and institutions in specific examples. The very first article takes […] Continue Reading
Can we make process, management, and systems a bit less dreary and a bit more glam? So, we’re at MIT, where technology is in the air, and I have my own personal obsessions with technology–witness my (often flawed) forays into twitter, delicious, and too many mobile phones, along with plenty of other tech tools. Source: http://www.ghtcoalition.org/diagnostics.php […] Continue Reading
Can franchises deliver better and more health care cost-effectively in places where current system fall short, and along the way equip a cadre of microentrepeneurs to spur economic development? We looked at the issues again this year: first, to explore what franchising entails, next, to study one chain of franchise clinic-pharmacies operating in Kenya and Rwanda, […] Continue Reading
Several years ago, thanks to an innovative class pioneered by my MIT Sloan colleague Simon Johnson, MIT students had a chance to partner with finalists in the World Bank Development Marketplace business plan competition. Student teams worked directly with promising entrepreneurs, mostly from the developing world, to address a development challenge posed by the World Bank […] Continue Reading
We looked at Riders for Health last year and were taken with their undeniable coolness as well as the focus and completeness of their operational model. Check out this discussion and related links. Since then, a new study and articles have come out: here’s Fueling Growth by Sonali Rammohan in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2010: Riders for […] Continue Reading
the need Every day, physicians, medical staff, community workers and their colleagues wrestle with the challenge of delivering healthcare more efficiently and effectively to those who most need it. Many agree on the need for innovation in care delivery models, programs and clinical and back-room operations. Enterprises could benefit from new approaches to management, logistics, […] Continue Reading
What have we learned from two years, 100 students, and 25 G-Lab GHD projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and Malawi? That we are lucky to partner with amazing leaders and organizations to learn first-hand about the needs and opportunities for delivering health care in resource-limited settings. That in some […] Continue Reading
As you might know, SIC has been selected to participate in MIT’s Global Health Delivery G-lab for the past two years. This year our MIT team (Ariel Santos, David Nelson, John Curry, and Michael Bronstein) focused on working with our team to build a detailed expansion strategy for SIC. Specifically, the objective was to create a systematic, evidence-based approach […] Continue Reading
Had an amazing January with Emmy, Irina and Anne. We worked with Kampala Family Clinic to figure out what they need to do to grow and fulfill their mission of making quality healthcare available to people in Kampala. GLab GHD MIT 2010 – Kampala Family Clinic Uganda from Gauti Reynisson on Vimeo. — Gauti Reynisson […] Continue Reading
For the second year in a row, SIC is pleased to host a team of students from MIT’s Sloan School of Business Global Health Delivery program, also known as G-Lab. The team of Ariel Santos, David Nelson, John Curry, and Michael Bronstein chose SIC from a pool of applying organizations, and have been working on a project […] Continue Reading
Anusuya Das wrote an article for the March 2009 issue of MIT’s Graduate Student News. I reproduced it below. Kusheh! This past IAP, I spent three weeks working on a healthcare project in Sierra Leone as part of the G-Lab class in Sloan. For starters, I would recommend non- Sloan students interested global health delivery issues […] Continue Reading
Written by Ellen and the rest of the MIT Sloan Baobab Team Our G Lab project revolved around looking at the benefits of implementing an electronic data system in healthcare clinics in Malawi. Our partner organization,Baobab Health Partnership, developed a touchscreen appliance that can be used both for patient registration and as a clinical support […] Continue Reading
From the blog of Ted Chan: When I decided to attend MIT Sloan, one of my explicit goals was to get hands-on experience working in other countries and different environments. I wanted to push myself outside of my comfort zone, and learn from people with different experience and backgrounds. MIT as a whole, and the Sloan […] Continue Reading
