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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.

East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit (EARGHSS) 2025

East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit (EARGHSS) 2025

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The recent lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic set the stage for a regional conversation on global health security. Convened by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Jumuiya Ya Kaunti Za Pwani, the East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit (EARGHSS) 2025 will convene a diverse group of stakeholders and serve as a road map for countries across East Africa to work together to facilitate preparedness and response for pandemics and bioterrorism, bolster biosecurity, strengthen health systems, advance health equity, and accelerate innovative health technologies.

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.

New Report on Narrowing the Know-Do Gap, Exploring the Intersection of Implementation Science and Health Equity

New Report on Narrowing the Know-Do Gap, Exploring the Intersection of Implementation Science and Health Equity

Considerable advancements and significant investments in global health have marked recent years; yet numerous evidence-based interventions continue to fall short of their full potential. By leveraging the multidisciplinary and multi-sector strength of its members, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance explored these challenges through the lens of implementation science in our new insights report. The project engaged nearly 150 global health leaders across various disciplines and sectors to inform and enhance the design, implementation, and scalability of health solutions.

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.

Learnings from the Access Bridge Clinical Reproductive Health Fellowship

Learnings from the Access Bridge Clinical Reproductive Health Fellowship

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Join Alliance member Public Health Institute (PHI) for a webinar on the updates and lessons learned from PHI Bridge’s Access Bridge project, that works to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services. In 2023, Access Bridge launched a fellowship with 22 clinicians working in 19 hospitals across 13 states — providing fellows with tools to implement core reproductive health services in their emergency departments (EDs). The webinar will introduce insights on how to build ED capacity to serve as reproductive health safety nets and increase health equity.

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...