Originally posted on Forbes. For two and a half months this year, I didn’t open my computer. Since the day my parents gifted me my first personal computer for college—a Macintosh SE with a black and white screen—I don’t think I’ve gone a week or two without a...
In a fast-paced and ever-moving world, it can be challenging to find focus. Film is one way to hone in on what matters and what is at stake. Denis Onyodi did just that by capturing the challenges of polio eradication in Mozambique. As director of VillageReach’s...
Originally posted on Skoll Foundation. In order to improve equity and access to primary health care for the most under-reached people, public health systems in most countries need massive changes. Today, there are more innovators working toward this end than ever....
During September, world leaders began to converge on New York for this year’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with its welcome focus on the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track after the COVID-19 pandemic. One of...
When I heard about the Salient Advisory 2023 report Innovations in Digitizing Health Supply Chains in Africa, I was thrilled that nearly 350 innovators headquartered across 27 African countries are supporting governments to explore technology to improve health care...
There is a Liberian adage that says, “Water can’t pass by a hole.” Unfortunately, in providing Community health workers (CHWs) the essential medicines and health commodities they need to do their jobs, we still encounter many systemic...
