Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
Join Stanford University Byers Center for Biodesign for their webinar, Beyond the Initial Cure: Expanding the Horizons of Orphan Drug Indications. The Inflation Reduction Act stands as key legislation aimed at improving the accessibility of medicines. Yet, it has...
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...
Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford University Byers Center for Biodesign for a hybrid brown bag lunch, where attendees will be hearing from Dr. Pedram Afshar about his journey with Sage Health and how to purposefully innovate for the underserved....
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.
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.
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.
Collaboration across sectors is necessary to solve global challenges We believe in the catalytic power of shared knowledge and collaboration across our sectors. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance is a membership organization and central network hub, bringing together...
Krista DonaldsonAs Director of Innovation to Impact at Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, Krista Donaldson’s work focuses on ensuring that design tools and processes are broadly applicable across global markets. She is also part of the team establishing the East...
Too often, promising health interventions do not reach the world’s most vulnerable communities or are not effectively adapted to community needs and constraints, resulting in significant unmet needs and growing health inequity. The Bay Area Global Health Alliance, as a multi-sector network and trusted, neutral convener, seeks to better understand this problem and propose practical solutions to close the gap between what we know and what we do, using the lens of implementation science, in order to advance health equity.