April 20, 2010 – As Haiti struggles to recover from January’s earthquake, members of the MIT community are pitching in to help the devastated country. Media Lab grad students Greg Elliott and Aaron Zinman have been developing Konbit, a free interactive communication platform that indexes the skills of people in crisis-affected communities so that organizations […] Continue Reading
April 16, 2010 – Despite recent gains in global health research and development, a local nonprofit says health care systems still face a significant bottleneck in how they deliver services and commodities to the world’s poor. Later this month, Seattle-based VillageReach will release a health management information system called vrMIS that it says will better […] Continue Reading
April 9, 2010 – A few months ago, GE Healthcare rolled out a portable electrocardiogram machine, trumpeting the new product’s ability to help patients wherever they might need it. But the most interesting thing about the MAC 800 is not where it can go, but where it came from: China. Chinese engineers funded by GE […] Continue Reading
April 9, 2010 A few months ago, GE Healthcare rolled out a portable electrocardiogram machine, trumpeting the new product’s ability to help patients wherever they might need it. But the most interesting thing about the MAC 800 is not where it can go, but where it came from: China. Chinese engineers funded by GE Healthcare […] Continue Reading
From Stacy Blackman Consulting – August 5, 2009 – A new course on global health delivery, offered as part of MIT Sloan School of Management‘s global entrepreneur lab series, is an emerging field that looks at how health care can reach the neediest people in both wealthy and developing countries. Financial Times ran a feature […] Continue Reading
February 18, 2009 – The Central Laboratory of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) has developed a profitable business model that might offer wealthy nations a way to jumpstart similar programs worldwide, then create profit centers to help sustain them. This business model, developed under the leadership of Executive Director Jeff Stringer, […] Continue Reading
December 29, 2008 – Graduate students enrolled in MIT Sloan School of Management’s newest global entrepreneurship course, Global Health Delivery, are venturing to resource-poor settings in Africa this January to tackle practical constraints in delivering health care to the neediest with new approaches that have implications for the United States. This new course is the […] Continue Reading
Simon Johnson, MIT professor, author, and former Chief Economist of the IMF, writing on Global Health Delivery (pre-cursor to GlobalHealth Lab) and it’s relation to the global financial crisis: November 12, 2008 The global financial crisis began (and continues) in relatively rich places, like the US and Western Europe, and it has obviously spread […] Continue Reading
May 19, 2008 Since December 2007, when we first announced an exciting partnership with MIT Sloan School, GHD Project and MIT teams have made great progress in defining ways to work together to improve health care delivery, including training the cadre of leaders in the field. The Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Global Health Delivery (G-Lab GHD), […] Continue Reading
April 27, 2007 Second-year M.B.A. students at MIT traveled to far-flung parts of the world to put their theories into action this year, then regrouped to share the lessons they had learned in the field. While one team of students was in New Zealand advising a consortium of vineyards, another was in China working with […] Continue Reading
