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Scaling Innovations for Health Equity: A Conversation With Global Strategies

Scaling Innovations for Health Equity: A Conversation With Global Strategies

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Join Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and Stanford Global Health Club for the November session in the Innovation & Health Equity Discussion Series: Scaling Innovations for Health Equity: A Conversation With Global Strategies. Global Strategies, the nonprofit behind one of the largest neonatal digital health platforms in the world, NoviGuide, will join us, together with their partners from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to discuss their pediatric innovation journey and the importance of diverse user testing and cross-country partnerships.

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Design for Health Equity & Lessons

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Design for Health Equity & Lessons

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Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for another session in the Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch series, Design for Health Equity & Lessons: Learn more about Equalize Health, the design and impact of med devices to address equity gaps, and important lessons along the way. This session features Krista Donaldson, PhD, who is an engineer, designer, and entrepreneur recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She is the Director of Innovation to Impact at Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign and helps establish the East Africa Biodesign Program. Krista founded Equalize Health, which developed medical devices treating over 2 million patients in 80 countries. In her talk she’ll cover the good, the challenges, and the big lessons from her work and Equalize Health.

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US

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Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US, a Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch Session. This session features speaker Sarah Hooper, JD, Professor of Practice at UC Law San Francisco and Associate Dean of the UCSF-UC Law SF Master of Science in Health Policy & Law. She focuses on health justice, aging, and complex care. She has been involved in clinical interventions like the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and research projects such as the Dementia Care Ecosystem clinical trial. Sarah has co-developed tools for decision-making among older adults with dementia, including PREPARE and Plan for Clarity.

Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity

Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity

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Join Alliance member Stanford Biodesign for their Stanford Biodesign Health Equity brown bag, Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity. This brown bag session features Dr. Lee Sanders, a general pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. He is a national expert in the science of health literacy, which applies a literacy lens to advancing maternal and child health equity.

Building Bridges, Uniting for Impact: 2024 Annual Meeting

Building Bridges, Uniting for Impact: 2024 Annual Meeting

“Global health really is a team effort,” said Colin Boyle, Alliance board chair and Lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, opening the Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s 4th Annual Meeting, where multisectoral members convened on May 21 to discuss bridging gaps and enhancing collaborative efforts across various sectors to tackle pressing health issues worldwide. 

Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Policy Fellows’ Research Presentations

Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign Policy Fellows’ Research Presentations

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Join Alliance member Stanford Institute for Biodesign for their Policy Fellows’ Research Presentations. Their inaugural policy fellows will be showcasing their work on Healthcare AI Policy for Trustworthy Innovation, Interoperability and Maternal Health, Implications of Current Policies in the Biotechnology Industry and Patient Care, and Medicare Adoption Rate of Novel Medical Devices.

Global Health Career Panel

Global Health Career Panel

The path to a career in global health is rarely straightforward. This theme emerged during a panel discussion hosted by Stanford University and the Bay Area Global Health Alliance on May 15. The event featured professionals from the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Roche Diagnostics, PATH, Google, and Stanford, who shared their unique career journeys. Moderator Sara Anderson, and panelists Joanna Sickler, Neha Agarwal, Claudia Amar, and Cyan Brown came from diverse backgrounds in politics and advocacy, business, engineering, nursing, and medicine.

Global Health Career Panel

Global Health Career Panel

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Registration has closed. Read key takeaways. Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health on Wednesday, May 15 from 9-10am PT for this co-hosted global health career panel. Attendees will hear global health...

Advancing Pediatrics and Women’s Health Through Innovation

Advancing Pediatrics and Women’s Health Through Innovation

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Join Alliance member Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign for a panel discussion focused on the trends, opportunities, and challenges surrounding advancing pediatrics and women’s health through innovation. The panel includes three incredible innovators including Marta Arenas-Jal, PhD, Dr. Anuradha Dayal, MD, and Juliana Perl. 

Building Bridges, Uniting for Impact: 2024 Annual Meeting

Building Bridges, Uniting for Impact: 2024 Annual Meeting

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The Bay Area Global Health Alliance’s Annual Meeting will bring together members to discuss pressing global health issues, including: innovations and investments for women’s health equity, overcoming barriers in multi-sector global health partnerships, and putting health at the heart of global climate change action. Speakers include leaders from Wellcome Trust, Accenture Development Partnerships, Africa Health Business, Americares, Cross-Border Impact Ventures, Gilead Sciences, Google, Merck for Mothers, PATH, Roche Diagnostics, and more.

2024 Stanford Global Health Conference

2024 Stanford Global Health Conference

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Join Stanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health and Stanford University Byers Center for Biodesign for their Annual Global Health Conference. The 2024 conference, titled Beyond Health Innovation: Scaling Meaningfully to Create Equity, will highlight...

HealthTech in East Africa: An Ecosystem Overview

HealthTech in East Africa: An Ecosystem Overview

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New Report and Webinar! East Africa Biodesign, a partnership between Stanford University Byers Center for Biodesign, the University of Global Health Equity, the University of Rwanda, and Kenyatta University, will hold a webinar on their new groundbreaking report HealthTech in East Africa: An Ecosystem Overview at 6:30am PT, March 7.

Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation with Dr. Matthew Harris

Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation with Dr. Matthew Harris

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Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign in welcoming Dr Harris, a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College London, to discuss his new book focused on the potential of low cost healthcare solutions from low income countries. The book presents a pathway for the UK’s National Health Service to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support. He will share examples of simple, frugal, high quality alternatives to current practice.

Innovation and Health Equity Discussion Series: Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation with Dr. Matthew Harris

Innovation and Health Equity Discussion Series: Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation with Dr. Matthew Harris

On Thursday, January 25, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance joined Alliance member Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign in co-hosting Dr. Matthew Harris, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine and Honorary National Health Service Consultant in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College London, to discuss his newly released book, Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation: Low-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries.