Over the past several months, our team has started using the phrase “institutional transformation” in talking about our partnerships with colleges and universities.
The Optimist sat down with Damian Walker, deputy director of data and analytics at the Gates Foundation, to talk about how the team approached evaluating the return on a $10…
When it launched in 2011, the Ouagadougou Partnership set an audacious goal for 2020: Increase the number of women using modern contraceptives by at least 2.2 million in nine francophone…
Even three decades later, Dr. Lorna Tumwebaze still remembers the fear she felt after encountering her first patient living with HIV at a hospital in her native Uganda. She had…
Abhilasha Karkey has made it her life’s mission to look for new ways to combat antimicrobial resistance. She talks with The Optimist about the complicating factors of climate change and…
This week, Dana Hovig director of Integrated Delivery will be among the thousands of leaders and global health experts gathering in Kazakhstan to reaffirm their commitment to the Alma-Ata Declaration.…
New IHME maps are powered by an array of seemingly unrelated data sets: home health surveys, weather reports, agricultural statistics and more. They were calculated together using “model-based statistics,” a…
The range of challenges that will be discussed at UNGA is formidable, but every year, Mark Suzman is struck by the rapid pace at which that progress can happen when…
