The USAID Strengthening Health Outcomes through Private Sector (SHOPS) and mHealth Alliance is currently showcasing a Pre-Conference Hall of their inaugural annual e-Conference that seeks to advance private sector innovations in the sustainable provision and use of quality family planning/ reproductive health products and services. Registration is still open for the May 5 event. Highlights will [...]

USAID and several USG departments are taking the global pulse through a 3 day series of e-conversations on issues related to global development. Topics range from citizenship in the 21st century to empowering women to promoting global health and investing in science and technology and others listed here. – Inspiring a New Generation Developing Global [...]

Jaspal did a fantastic job summarizing the GHC in six posts.  They’re available on THDblog and Design Research Mongolia.  If you’re looking for a top pick, start with #5 “We [heart] Margaret Chan“.  I list them here in reverse temporal order. Reflections on the Conference We [heart] Margaret Chan Coming full circle with Arvind From [...]

I’m leaving Berkeley early to hike a short segment of the Appalachian Trail this Memorial Day weekend before next week’s conference. The Global Health Conference starts Tuesday the 27th and runs through Saturday. If any readers will be DC then and want to meet up, drop a line on the comment space below. There will [...]

This is a follow-up post of supplemental material to the PSP-One social marketing conference held online in mid-March. It attracted a great deal of interest; 900 people registered for the conference and there were 870+ page views of the Panel 2 presentations alone. Linked here is the audio-enhanced slide presentation of the social marketing activities in [...]

I posted this one to THDblog as well. Richard Smith at the BMJ Blog wrote about last week’s Private Sector Health Systems conference [program PDF] in Wilton Park. The full text is at the BMJ, but here’s my summary. In many developing countries, the poor are much more likely to use private providers than public [...]

It does seem a little out of step for social marketers to be giving away the goods, but here it is.  PSP-One is hosting a FREE online conference on social marketing March 10th to 17th (Curious what an online conference might be? Check out these FAQs). The innovative approach offers pre-conference discussion boards with leaders [...]