This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employee Kate Hughes is stationed at the Sokoto Children’s Hospital in Nigeria, learning how to treat patients with Noma disease. She figured out…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The New Food Economy explores why so many peer-reviewed dietary studies turn out to be either wrong or contradicted by other studies: The problem is in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. VillageReach is on a mission to solve complex health-care delivery challenges in low- and middle-income countries. They’re all about the “last mile” – not just reaching it, but starting there.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In April, the United Nations Chief Information and Technology Officer, Atefeh Riazi, visited Seattle, where she met with numerous companies and non-profits, including many Global Washington members. The purpose of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • RAND Corporation explores the concept of Truth Decay — where a group of people don’t just differ on opinions, but can’t agree on a basic set…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The StartStrong program in Avondale was developed through listening to the needs of women in the community and began to fulfill them, dramatically reducing the infant mortality rate. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • While the number of cases of HIV and AIDS are dropping, so are funding donors for the issue. This lack of funding may lead to a return of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mona Korejo shares her experience at Doctors Without Borders in a slum of Pakistan, where she found that engaging with the community to promote daily health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Disease Control Priorities project is now in its third edition and covers sanitation services that are working effectively, ones that are not, and what is cost-effective for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Town & Country takes a look back on the advocacy work that late Princess Diana did, especially her push to ban landmines, which was controversial at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute in Houston consulted experts and determined steps that states can take immediately to reduce wasteful healthcare spending. • How can philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex interviews Dr. Pedro Alonso, director of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme, about what needs to be done to eradicate the disease and where the funding…