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Trevor Lewis
Posted by Trevor Lewis
Dec 7 2012

Weekly News Roundup

News, Events, and Observations about Heath Markets in the Developing World

News From CHMI-Profiled Programs

Nicholas Sowden of Penda Health, a growing chain of primary care clinics in Kenya, won an Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the BiD Network, on the merit of potential growth and impact.

Trevor Lewis
Posted by Trevor Lewis
Feb 13 2012

CHMI Reaches 100,000 Visitors!

A look at how visitors have used CHMI since its launch

As of today (Monday, Feb. 13), the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) website has received more than 100,000 unique visitors. CHMI visitors have come from 204 countries (top countries include India, the Philippines and Kenya) and represent a wide range of stakeholders in global health, including program implementers, funders, researchers and policy makers.

Our goal is to be a one-stop shop for information on programs and policies that help the private sector to reach its full potential to deliver quality, affordable and accessible care to the poor in developing countries.

Alex Robinson
Posted by Alex Robinson
Jan 13 2012

Weekly News Roundup

Happy Friday everyone! Below are some highlights that we at the CHMI team found interesting.

PROGRAM NEWS

Dr. Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in India was interviewed by the BBC for doing “for major surgery what Henry Ford did for the motor car – make it affordable for the masses, by means of mass production.” Hear the interview here.

Diana Fernholz
Posted by Diana Fernholz
Jul 8 2011

The Weekly Roundup of Innovative Health News

There's a rise in the call for performance evaluation

This week has shown that there is a definite demand for performance tracking, both from outside assessors and within the private health system itself.

CHMI is excited to debut our new Reported Results initiative at iHEA’s 8th World Congress on Health Economics in Toronto, July 10-13.

Trevor Lewis
Posted by Trevor Lewis
May 13 2011

A World of Events - Don't Miss Out!

Updates from CHMI and Interesting Events Around the World

Update

As we start a new week, we want to draw your attention to some important and interesting items. Check them out!

CHMI NEWS

  1. CHMI has recently launched a web survey that should appear automatically when you enter the site (if it doesn’t appear, check your pop-up blocker). We strongly encourage our users to take this survey: it is only 4 questions long, should take less than 30 seconds to fill out and will help us better understand our audience and how we can better help the global health community.
Molly Cutler
Posted by Molly Cutler
Apr 13 2011

The Global Business Coalition's 10th Anniversary Conference and Award Dinner June 1-2, NYC

Business leaders facing global health challenges

The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria represents over 200 private sector companies leading the business fight for improved global health. The organization facilitates leadership and advocacy by business leaders, allowing members to reach their global health goals.

Rose Reis
Posted by Rose Reis
Nov 29 2010

Welcome new partners! (plus other exciting news)

From work in 3 countries to 16, CHMI's expanded reach will uncover promising programs and policies in the most dynamic health marketplaces

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) is pleased to announce significant milestones within the first months of CHMI’s launch.

  • CHMI’s online Programs database now features more than 620 programs in 105 countries.
  • New partner hubs in East Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and the Andean region will expand in-country mapping of programmatic and policy innovations aiming to improve health and financial protection for the poor. CHMI will now rigorously landscape for innovations in 16 countries.
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.

Gina Lagomarsino
Posted by Gina Lagomarsino
Jun 23 2010

Improving Health Markets for the Poor—A Goal Worth Pursuing

We are building the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) because we believe that the poor in developing countries deserve high quality health care without having to pay so much that they go deeper into poverty. Improving the performance of vast, unorganized health marketplaces—with lots of private health care providers, lots of consumer direct spending, and little regulation--will be no easy task. But we think it’s a goal worth pursuing, given the dominance of health markets in many countries.

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