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  • CapacityPlus Offers Its First \"Code Bounties\" to the Global iHRIS Community

    Capacity Plus recently began offering “code bounties” to engage more people in the global community that supports the iHRIS Suite of open source software for the health workforce. These code bounties are small projects with narrow scopes of software development work and small...

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  • UNC Chancellor Thorp Headlines TEDxChapelHill on Global Health and Technology

    May 26, Chapel Hill —From cell phones to enhanced diagnostics, crowd-sourcing, and mobile medical devices, a growing number of innovative technologies—and innovators—are improving access to high-quality health care for vulnerable populations worldwide. Leaders in the field...

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  • Digital Library Expands Resources

    The HRH Global Resource Center —the digital library supported by the IntraHealth-led Capacity Plus project—has expanded to include over 2,500 resources. Devoted to human resources for health issues in developing countries, the Global Resource Center is the largest collection of...

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  • Manthan Project Director Speaks on how Economic Trends Affect the Indian Healthcare Industry

    Earlier this month, Amod Kumar, director of the Manthan Project, spoke at the eHealth Healthcare Leader’s Forum in New Delhi, India about how economic trends over the last couple decades have affected—and continue to affect—the Indian healthcare industry. He focused on the...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    As we reflect back on the global health stories that made the news in 2010—and some that didn’t—here are 11 top stories we will be following in 2011. Health worker migration: WHO’s unprecedented stand on recruitment In 2010, we celebrated the World Health...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    Open source and mobile technologies: need rigorous review and documentation to scale up As Kate Otto notes in her Huffington Post blog on “ a prediction of global health prosperity for 2011 ,” several technologies have been “created, tested, piloted and evaluated in the...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    Family planning:  Happy Birthday, Pill! In 2010, “the pill” turned 50, providing the opportunity to reflect on the history and importance of family planning.  Birth Control Pill Turns 50: 7 Ways It Changed Lives , in US News and World Report, acknowledged that...

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  • An eHandbook to Help Strengthen Health Systems

    Health Systems in Action: An eHandbook for Leaders and Managers —the tool of the month on LeaderNet . Produced by MSH, the eHandbook provides case studies, weblinks, and other resources to help leaders and managers strengthen health systems. The eHandbook emphasizes the central,...

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  • Saving Lives with HealthPhone

    HealthPhone is a pilot program aimed at sharing information in India on a wide variety of essential health topics.  The mobile phone has made connection possible in ways that were truly unthinkable until very recently. And it has stoked the desire of people to be connected. Take...

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  • 2010 Global Philanthropy Forum Recap: Technology = Change

    The official theme of this year’s gathering had little to do with technology and development ( Defy Barriers, Effect Change: Access to Health, Food, and Water ); but for those interested in this thread, Rahim Kanani, a Huffington Post blogger, reveals “one of the most prominent...

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