Judging Success in Translational Medical Research
Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.
Health Innovations in health care policies and programs
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Transforming Healthcare
Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 1
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
Second Life’s Second Life for Social Innovation
Researchers explore the effects of virtual embodiment among people with Parkinson’s disease.
Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries
The views of those who benefit from social programs offer insight into a program’s effectiveness.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Burnout From an Organizational Perspective
Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
The Upside of Nonprofit Burnout
Two years ago I quit my nonprofit CEO job. I’ve just had the two most productive years of my career.