November 13, 2020

At our recent Annual Forum, we had the chance to highlight our newest cohort of innovators, who joined our network earlier this year.

November 13, 2020

Over the past five years, innovators attending the Innovations in Healthcare Annual Forum have forged new collaborations with investors, funders, policymakers, academics and most importantly – each other.

November 13, 2020

At Innovations in Healthcare, we believe that the right answers to a lot of the most vexing problems in healthcare delivery are already out there. Our job is to identify and amplify healthcare innovation around the world.

November 13, 2020

Abhinav Girdhar of Bodhi Health Education is an entrepreneur with an innovative model for improving healthcare delivery in India: his organization uses low-cost mobile technology and customized e-learning tools to provide quality and scalable training to health workers.

November 13, 2020

Healthcare entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries need growth capital to build their capacity and expand their social impact. Yet, because innovations are still nascent, these enterprises are often unable to absorb significant traditional capital. Recognizing this gap in funding, the Pfizer Foundation launched the Global Health Innovation Grants (GHIG) program in 2016 to deploy funding and support for healthcare enterprises around the world. Innovations in Healthcare serves as project advisor to GHIG and measures both grantee and portfolio performance of the program.

November 13, 2020

As summer begins here in Durham, North Carolina, and Duke’s campus quiets down, we’re readying the latest cohort of Innovations in Healthcare interns for their summers working with SEAD and Innovations in Healthcare Innovators in East Africa.

November 13, 2020

The 7,000 miles between Clover, a bustling, chain of healthy fast food restaurants in Boston, and Vaatsalya Heathcare Solutions, a chain of hospitals serving patients in semi-rural cities in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, might seem too great a distance for innovation to percolate.

November 13, 2020

IPIHD is proud to announce our 2015 IPIHD cohort, adding 12 new exciting innovators to our global network! From Vietnam to Kenya to Brazil, these organizations are all delivering novel healthcare services and products that increase access to affordable, quality care in the settings where they currently operate and have the potential to impact models of care worldwide.

November 13, 2020

“You have to be fundamentally willing to fail,” said Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of the Republic of Iceland in his opening remarks at a breakout session during the Clinton Global Initiative 2014, an annual meeting that attracts leaders, organizers, and innovators from around the world working to tackle a wide array of critical issues we face today. But the breakout session – “Can we fail faster, bigger and better for greater impact?”– was itself an illustration of the challenges behind talking about failure.

November 13, 2020

March Madness is over here at Duke University and we are feeling bittersweet that the fun is over and that we have to wait a whole year to see our friends again.