Dateline: March 16, 2011 Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh By: A team of MIT graduate students in ghdLAB The MIT CRHM team arrived in safely Hyderabad on Sunday March 12, 2011 at 4AM and were swiftly greeted and whisked away to our hotel and spent the day recovering from jet-lag and the end of the semester. […] Continue Reading
A resource-constrained environment March 16, from the student team We visited Katosi Health Clinic, one of the two clinics run by our host organization. We were warned that the catchment area for Katosi is extremely poor. The majority of the population in the area is fishermen and thinks that their lives are always at stake […] Continue Reading
Establishing pharmacies in low-income communities Student observations on Mi Famacita Nacional’s dual-mission, franchising model In late 2010, a small team of MIT students took a look at the organization from the outside and, as a course assignment, prepared an executive summary aimed at its board of directors. This article presents their overview and assessment of […] Continue Reading
Dateline: March 23, 2011 Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa An MIT student team shares some thoughts on inequality in living standards in South Africa. BY Tye Duncan, Rebbie Hughes, Todd Waldron, and Nicole Zenel One of the things we have found most striking in our travels in South Africa is the wide range in […] Continue Reading
What are the key issues, costs and benefits of point-of-care electronic data systems in low resource settings? A case study using the example Baobab Health’s technology for ART clinics in Malawi Reflecting on the value of data in health care delivery, Ellen Tompsett, one of four MIT Sloan students working in Malawi in 2009 on a Global Health Delivery […] Continue Reading
A guide to the issues and steps in the process of launching an emergency call center in a resource-poor setting based on the experience of a student project with KenCall in 2010 written by Hassani Turner, MIT Sloan School of Management MBA Class of 2010 Global Health Delivery Lab at MIT is a course that allows […] Continue Reading
Determining staffing needs for Warmbath’s 36-bed Maternity Unit Presenting a tool created by an MIT student team for optimizing staffing in a clinical setting Warmbaths Hospital is a 133‐bed public district hospital in the rural Limpopo Province of South Africa. Each month, the hospital sees roughly 3000 outpatients, 1000 surgical inpatient‐days, 600 medical inpatient‐days, and […] Continue Reading
Dateline: March 25, 2011 Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa An MIT Student team reports from the field on their work with RTT Group’s “Unjani Clinic-in-a-Box” designed to provide access to affordable healthcare in South Africa’s rural areas. It’s our last day here in Jo’burg on the RTT Unjani project; We present our findings to […] Continue Reading
Strategy for a rural community health program: An overview of MIT students’ 2009 strategic analysis and planning for a participatory organization serving multiple needs in rural Uganda. Kyetume Community-Based Health Care Programme (Kyetume or KCBHCP) was founded in 1994 to serve local residents of the Ntenjeru and Nakisunga sub-counties of the Mukono South county in Uganda, an […] Continue Reading
Mind, hand, management and health care How global health delivery connects to MIT Sloan’s mission Modern medicine could reduce disease greatly, yet fails to reach millions. Innovations in management may help address the constraints. We focus on organizations on the front lines of care delivery, studying the issues, interacting with experts, and connecting students with real-world […] Continue Reading
Operational and strategic assessment for Kampala Family Clinic in Uganda A capsule case report of analysis for improvement in finance, operations, marketing, and information technology Kampala Family Clinic (KFC) was founded in 2004 by two Ugandan entrepreneurs to provide quality, affordable healthcare to the growing middle class in the city of Kampala, Uganda. The clinic grew quickly […] Continue Reading
Scaling what works: from local success to broader impact Student observations on Nyaya Health’s model for delivering care in rural Nepal In late 2010, a small team of MIT students took a look at the organization from the outside and, as a course assignment, prepared an executive summary aimed at its board of directors. This […] Continue Reading
Should the Heart Institute of the Caribbean expand to West Africa? Student observations on the organization’s success and future goals In late 2010, a small team of MIT students took a look at the organization from the outside and, as a course assignment, prepared an executive summary aimed at its board of directors. This article […] Continue Reading
A brand-new special issue of BMC International Health and Human Rights features a special collection on Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. The papers present examples from Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda of how science and technology innovations are connected to entrepreneurship and institutions in specific examples. The very first article takes […] Continue Reading
Several years ago, thanks to an innovative class pioneered by my MIT Sloan colleague Simon Johnson, MIT students had a chance to partner with finalists in the World Bank Development Marketplace business plan competition. Student teams worked directly with promising entrepreneurs, mostly from the developing world, to address a development challenge posed by the World Bank […] Continue Reading
