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    How Can We End Female Genital Cutting?

    Skoll Foundation

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Zachary Slobig how a community engagement approach can end female genital cutting around the world.  • How can funders work with communities to develop a culturally appropriate…

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    For Gender Equality: Reward Work, Not Wealth

    Philanthropy Women Sep 17, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A report from Oxfam calls out rewarding wealth, rather than work as a major contributing factor to gender inequality worldwide.  • How can wealthy funders dismantle…

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    How Childhood Experiences Contribute to the Education-Health Link

    The Conversation

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Shanta R. Dube explains how childhood experiences contribute to the health-education link, making reducing and addressing childhood trauma imperative for building long-term success.  • How can funders help…

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    Boosting Disaster Resilience Among Older Adults

    RAND Corporation Sep 17, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Research from the RAND Corporation highlights ways for stakeholders to increase disaster resilience among older adults. • How can funders help support and expand existing programs that offer…

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    A Potentially Fatal Weakness of the Global Medical Supply Chain

    The Conversation

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Morten Wendelbo and Christine Crudo Blackburn argue that the small number of suppliers for medical supplies used around the globe can leave the world underresourced in an…

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    Will Air Quality Monitoring Be The Next Health Tracking Craze?

    Fast Company

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Eillie Anzilotti reports that the trend of health tracking may spread to the variable and important factor of air quality.  • How can tracking air quality on…

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    Engineered Natural Killer Cells May Be the Next Great Cancer Immunotherapy

    Science Magazine Sep 16, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Science magazine reports on cancer researchers who, inspired by success with T cells, are now equipping immune cells with tumor-homing protein. • While this breakthrough is…

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    Expanding Access to Life-Saving Maternal Care

    NextBillion Sep 16, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • This NextBillion post features the efforts of Safe Surgery 2020, which aims to train medical teams in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, making sure that life-saving…

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    Bringing an Indigenous Patient Perspective to Kidney Research

    Canadian Institutes of Health Research Sep 15, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The Canadian Institutes of Health Research reports on how Indigenous patients in Canada can help shape the direction of kidney research, since they often face higher rates…

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    Social Media Can Help Fight Social Anxiety

    GOOD Magazine

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Eva Buechel explains how the low-pressure atmosphere of social media can help socially-anxious people reach out for help when they do not want to bother anyone.  •…

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    Open Pharma Approach Targets a Terrible Disease

    Global Health NOW

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Brian W. Simpson describes how the Open Pharma approach can create new treatments for diseases, like mycetoma, that are not addressed thanks to a lack of market incentives. •…

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    Health Care Tech: Managing Meds More Easily

    Big Island Now

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Big Island Now explains how new medical technology leveraged by the Pharm2Pharm program is improving medication management for high-risk patients. • How can funders help replicate…

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