This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Atlantic reports on a new diet app from Weight Watchers that is designed for children as young as 8, however, it has mixed views and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jackie Marchildon and Pia Gralki discuss the success of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: the 99.9% eradication of polio. • How can this success be replicated for other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joy, a designer at PSI’s SRH program, Adolescents 360 (A360) in Nigeria, sheds light on how youth perspective can inform the design and analysis of the program. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A research effort called The Violence Project recommends training every member of a school community (from teachers to bus drivers) to pay attention to students’ mental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Erasing world hunger and ensuring the health of our environment is a challenge that will take creative solutions to solve. In these 10 episodes of “Food Talk…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jackie Marchildon reports that North Battleford, Saskatchewan is using needle vending machines to combat HIV and STI outbreaks. • How can funders work to reduce public health concerns…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Laud Anthony Basing, a biomedical engineering research graduate at Purdue University, has developed a rapid diagnostic saliva swab test to identify yaws, an often overlook neglected tropical disease.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Although social media has become a regular part of our daily lives and source of ‘happiness’, it is also a major cause of anxiety for many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for On the Pulse, Lyra Fontaine addresses the rise in teen vaping in the US, states the risks associated with the addictive habit, and how parents can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Global Health NOW addresses the dangerous relationship between chronic inflammation and depression and the development of an immunization from bacteria that has the potential to help. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Toby Fricker discusses the importance of ending open defecation in Afghanistan and how culturally appropriate strategies can make it happen. • Will these techniques work in other places?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are three ideas that go outside of the traditional emergency response methods to address the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These ideas involve…