Articles by Sylvia Sable
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November 13, 2020
Three Themes from Sankalp Africa
Intellecap's Sankalp Africa Summit wrapped up at the end of February. Over 800 delegates from more than 35 countries from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America came to the event in Nairobi where the theme of this year’s event was “Spurring the Entrepreneurship Economy.”
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November 13, 2020
East Africa Design Thinking Workshop Recap
Innovations in Healthcare and SEAD hosted a full-day workshop for East Africa innovators last week in partnership with ThinkPlace Foundation, a leading strategic design consultancy firm in Kenya with experience applying human centered design principles to complex public health initiatives.
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November 13, 2020
East Africa Health Policy Roundtable Sparks New Ideas
From all of us at Innovations in Healthcare, SEAD, and Africa Capacity Alliance, we’d like to thank all those that attended the recent health policy roundtable on September 18 at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya.
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November 13, 2020
Opportunities await the private health sector in East Africa
Private sector health innovations are playing a growing and complementary role to the government in East Africa.
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November 13, 2020
Meet Le-Nest: A Community-Based Healthcare Delivery Model in Shanghai, China
“The idea for Le-Nest was formed when we realized the potential of preventive health care and improved health management skills among community members to lower costs and increase efficiency in the healthcare system. As it is, most people seeking health care completely bypass primary health care facilities, seeking care instead at overburdened tier-three hospitals. This will simply not work with China’s increasingly aging population and growing chronic disease burden” -- Limin Gao, founder of Le-Nest.