At a time where emerging and rapidly spreading infections such as the Ebola and Zika viruses have been dominating conversations in global health, this is a defining moment for innovators – and new and exciting thinking in healthcare is always the hallmark of the annual TEDMED event. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Layla McCay – a member…
According to Wikipedia, crowdfunding is “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”. This relatively new phenomenon has helped bring all manner of products and projects to market, and now global health is joining in. In this installment…
When you walk up to a sink in a public restroom, there’s a good chance that you’ll be greeted by a poster reminding you to wash your hands. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Layla McCay – a member of our Media and Research Team – talks more about one of the oldest public health…
Hundreds of people surged up the steps of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC this month sporting the iconic oversized badges that only meant one thing – time for TEDMED. This famous – and exclusive – conference from the people behind TED Talks is attended by health innovators from all over the world. The aim…
Every two minutes a woman dies in childbirth. In sub-Saharan Africa, women are 136 times more likely to die than in developed countries. In this latest issue of Digital Diversity, we look at how an annual challenge is helping turn the attention of the world’s smartest innovators to solving one of the world’s greatest problems…
When philosophers muse upon the secret to life, they probably aren’t imagining a little yellow box. And yet, when it comes to surgery, that box can hold the secret to life, and it turns out that the answer is simple: oxygen. Digital Diversity is a series of blog posts from kiwanja.net featuring the many ways…