A Family Joined, with English There is Easy Communication with Community
“Nancy, can you believe it? I can say everything I want in English. There is no need anymore to try hard finding a word to convey my intent.” I am very happy and proud of this achievement and thankful to Joyce fertility support centre group for their effort. The ability helps me speak out more...
Balancing the Bicycle
Einstein said, “Life is like riding a bicycle – to keep your balance you must keep moving.” I have never been a poster boy for managing a good Work/Life balance . With a full-time commitment to my project with Ashoka Fellow Andrés Martínez Fernández's organization EHAS and a startup non-profit of my...
Continuing to Work from Pakistan
The 3rd month of my project has been very busy. I am near to completing the training guidelines for traditional birth attendants, health workers and health activists that my mentor, Ashoka Fellow Lucy Attah Auwalu, has encouraged me to write. The guidelines I am working on are based on safe...
Balancing the See-saw of Research and Interventions
I’m working more and more with a huge variety of people to set up SNEHA ’s new community resource centers (CRC’s) in 20 slum areas of Mumbai. My days are filled with research group meetings looking at data from past projects and the government, concept meetings planning what interventions we will...
In a pilot center in a small town in northeastern Brazil, Renata Arantes Villela is creating a caring and nurturing environment for the disabled. With strong links to the broader community in which it is based, the pilot center will serve as a model for the development of much-needed services for...
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Renê Patriota is a physician who empowers consumers to demand and receive better health care from both the public health system and private health insurance and health plans. Her association resolves immediate problems that threaten patients' access to urgently needed medical attention and seeks...
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Giant Rats put Noses to Work on Africa's Land Mine Epidemic
Ashoka Fellow Bart Weetjens' organization, APOPO , trains HeroRats (giant pouched rats) to detect land mines in Africa. Bart is also employing their superb noses to detect tuberculosis. Bart and APOPO were just featured in CNN, and you can read the article here: Be sure check it out and see how you...
The Freedom to Innovate: The Contributions of Social Entrepreneurs to the Field of Global Public Health
Ashoka Vice-President of Global Marketing Beverly Schwartz has contributed a chapter to a new book on the role of community-based organizations and non-governmental organizations in public health. Igniting the Power of Community: The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health , edited by Paul...
Building Partnerships: A Conversation with Ashoka Fellow Mohammad Al-Ubaydli and Boehringer Ingelheim Executive Joseph Chalil
Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder of Patients Know Best (PKB), a technology platform that allows patients to securely view their medical records and share their information with other doctors and family members, giving individual patients easy access to and control over their medical data. Dr....
Retour sur Making More Health
Depuis 2010 Ashoka & Boehringer Ingelheim travaillent conjointement sur le projet Making More Health. L'objectif de ce partenariat est de soutenir les innovations sociales dans le secteur de la santé, l'occasion pour Boehringer Ingelheim de mener un travail de réflexion globale sur l'innovation dans...