It’s time to accelerate the shift to value-based care, and leverage private resources to build partnerships for better healthcare capacity that can benefit all - rich and poor.

Mark McClellan, Lucas Scherdel, Andrea Thoumi, and Krishna Udayakumar 22 Sep 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Half of the world’s population lack access to essential health services – are we doing enough?

By collaborating across sectors, drawing on our complementary skills, expertise and reach, our impact is magnified beyond the sum of its parts

Kirsty McNeill and Corry Jacobs 20 Sep 2019

Healthcare Delivery

Our health systems are under pressure. Here are 9 ways to remedy that

Better national funding, more thorough education about lifestyle choices and redesigned healthcare that puts people at its centre are what we need to ensure no one is left behind.

Helen Clark 20 Sep 2019

Sustainable Development Impact Summit

7 ways the private sector can contribute to universal health coverage

Health expenditures are rising – but government funding has stalled, and personal spending is filling the gap. Here's how the private sector can help.

Sofiat Akinola and Dessislava Dimitrova 20 Sep 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Here's how to close the $176 billion health financing gap

Governments, development partners and non-governmental organizations are critical players in advancing universal health coverage, but they can’t do it alone. The private sector has a crit...

Matthew Guilford and Christoph Kurowski 17 Sep 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

Human relationships are the all-purpose tool for sustainable development

Using the best in psychology, neuroscience, and developmental science, a new community of researchers is testing dozens of interventions to strengthen human relationships.

Andrew Serazin 16 Sep 2019

Sustainable Development Impact Summit

First do no harm. Why healthcare needs to change

The interdependence between healthcare and climate change represents a unique opportunity to mitigate climate change and have a positive impact on human health.

Robert Metzke 16 Sep 2019

Global Health

Malaria could be gone by the middle of the century. Here’s how

New technologies are being developed that could spell the end for this lethal threat.

Johnny Wood 13 Sep 2019

Global Health

Here's how governments can achieve Universal Health Coverage

More than 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty because they have to pay for their healthcare out-of-pocket, writes the World Economic Forum's Vanessa Candeias, Head of Shapi...

Vanessa Candeias · World Bank 12 Sep 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

This is how social media giants are helping stop the spread of measles

Social media giants are limiting the information they share about vaccinations to reliable sources, a move against false reports that have led to a spread of measles.

Katharine Rooney 11 Sep 2019

Global Health

Sierra Leone trials new ways to cut teen pregnancy

Although the global adolescent birth rate has declined in the last two decades the number of teen pregnancies is set to rise. Sierra Leone is testing new ways to cut them.

Nellie Peyton · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 10 Sep 2019

Sustainable Development

This app for tuberculosis increases odds of patients completing treatment

MIT researchers in Kenya have increased the rate of success of TB treatment by 9%, their study concluded. This was achieved through an interactive mobile platform which reminded the patie...

Peter Dizikes · MIT News 10 Sep 2019

Future of Health and Healthcare

MIT’s new thread-like robots could travel through blood vessels in the brain for more effective surgery

The new development combines robotics with current surgery techniques, reducing the risks. The 'robot-threads' are made mostly of water and can survive inside the human body.

Darrell Etherington · TechCrunch 06 Sep 2019

Healthcare Delivery

The life-saving power of sex education

179 governments pledged to provide information to help young people make “responsible” decisions about sex and sexuality. It is time to honour that pledge, by giving teens the information...

Jayathma Wickramanayake · Project Syndicate 06 Sep 2019

Global Health

These brothers are combining linguistics and AI to increase the quality of end-of-life care

Bob and David Gramling are combining palliative care expertise, linguistics and AI to encourage more effective conversations between doctors and people receiving end-of-life care.

Michael Erard · Mosaic Science 04 Sep 2019

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