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Alice Garabrant
Posted by Alice Garabrant
Sep 2 2010

What's the private sector's role in fighting malaria?

As the CHMI database and website continue to grow, we’re moving into a phase more focused on the analytics of health market innovations. We’ve heard feedback from our core audiences about their desire to know what it all means: what are we finding? What can the website tell us?

To meet these requests, we’re developing a series of “briefs” on key topics of interest to our stakeholders.

Maria Belenky
Posted by Maria Belenky
Aug 31 2010

Connect on Facebook

The Center for Health Market Innovations is dedicated to sharing information and connecting people working to improve health markets in developing countries. You may be managing a program and looking to get ideas from people who have implemented a similar program (say, micro-insurance) in another country. Or you may be a small successful startup seeking additional funding to scale-up your operations. This is one area where CHMI is looking to play a role. Our site today houses more than 600 program profiles and more than 70 funding organizations.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
Aug 27 2010

In the news this week: Growing and squashing innovations

New idea: Fund or flush?

Vaccines are good candidate for grant funding

This week, some of our favorite blogs discussed how to successfully fund or flush innovations.

From Ashoka, learn about Social Return on Investments (SROI) in 30 seconds. Like any rigorous evaluation, SROI objectives should be forecasted in a project's planning stage, rather than retrospectively evaluated. This way, organizations create goals that are focused on outcomes and ensure data collection happens along with implementation to measure progress toward set outcomes.

Donika Dimovska
Posted by Donika Dimovska
Aug 25 2010

Crossing the 5,000 visits mark!

CHMI reaches an important milestone

It has been 8 weeks since the launch of the CHMI website and we are very excited to announce that the site has now been visited by over 2,200 people from 90 countries for a total of over 5,000 visits. We are thrilled that the site is getting so much attention. Thank you all for your interest, support and contributions.

We now have close to 600 program profiles, and with new partners in 13 more countries to join the CHMI network in the coming months, we will be adding many more innovative programs for you to learn about.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
Aug 23 2010

Scaling up community health centers in the US

US health clinics serving poor and migrant communities to get $250 million boost

Image courtesy of Stock Exchange

Community health centers in the United States serve a vital role in providing primary and preventative care to about 19 million people every year. As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act signed into law in March, centers can apply to get a share of the $11 billion to be spent over the next five years for building clinics, adding health workers, and installing electronic patient health records information management systems.

Donika Dimovska
Posted by Donika Dimovska
Aug 19 2010

Implementer Perspectives: Know Your Community

_CHMI asked Fola Laoye, Chief Executive Officer of Hygeia Nigeria Limited, to share key lessons from the implementation of Hygeia’s programs.

Maria Belenky
Posted by Maria Belenky
Aug 12 2010

Partner Perspectives: BroadReach's Lauren Rawlings Discusses Work in South Africa

Lauren Rawlings is a consultant with CHMI partner BroadReach, living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has completed projects across Africa and India for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), and Gatsheni Management Consulting.

**1. What is your background?

Onil Bhattacharryya
Posted by Onil Bhattacharryya
Aug 10 2010

How do we know what health market innovations work?

Improving health markets for the poor means making health care more available, affordable, or of higher quality. Disruptive innovations, such as new technologies and/or business models, can help do this by changing the market in an unexpected way to improve the services or products offered. One of the main challenges of researching programs that use disruptive innovations, though, is assessing their real impact. How do you know how much a program is really benefiting the poor? How do you assess which programs most benefit the poor?

SoJin Youn
Posted by SoJin Youn
Aug 3 2010

In the News this Week: Innovative Technology Solutions in Africa

In the news this week…

A number of interesting articles were published last week on innovative technologies for remote health care.

SMS programs are showing great promise in connecting patients with care. CNN reported on the Rapid SMS program in Rwanda, where the government has joined efforts with various U.N. organizations to fight its high maternal mortality rate.

Maria Belenky
Posted by Maria Belenky
Jul 27 2010

Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Application Deadline Approaching

A great opportunity for social entrepreneurs is fast approaching: the next and final deadline for applications for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is Wednesday, August 4, 2010.

The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability.

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