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Feb 14, 20184 min read
Designing for Data Use
This blogpost is based on a talk I gave at the Evaluation Community of India’s recent “EvalFest” at the Indian Habitat Centre in...
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Oct 27, 20173 min read
More than this? Getting more bang from your buck for training
How to get more bang for your buck with one-time training programs We know that one-time training courses are seldom sufficient to build...
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Jun 23, 20172 min read
Kicking Up Health Worker Motivation and Engagement
One of the most common problems I see working in the public health system is depleted motivation and engagement. It’s a fundamental...
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Jun 1, 20172 min read
New ideas for new contraceptive technologies
I have always wanted to go to Lake Naivasha in Kenya to see flamingos. Pink is my childhood favourite colour and I love birds - I was...
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May 17, 20172 min read
Getting perspective on the US's opioid epidemic
In Dreamland, Quinones describes the alarming and silent epidemic of opioid addiction growing across the interior of the US; spread by...
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Jan 17, 20173 min read
Putting the “care” back into healthcare
This was originally published in the booklet for the 2016 India Health and Wellness Summit at the Taj Palace Hotel in Delhi, December...
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Aug 9, 20163 min read
Life Skills Education at RBANMS Girls High School
We recently provided support for implementation of a life skills program at RBANMS Girls High School, with Enfold Trust. Life skills...
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Jan 21, 20162 min read
Innovation in the ICDS Program
Myself and a small team of colleagues recently compiled an innovation toolkit for the ICDS program in MP – you can see them below (Hindi...
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Dec 7, 20152 min read
The New Science of Adolescent Development
The new science of adolescent development: why it’s important for public health I have been working in the area of adolescent health...
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Nov 11, 20152 min read
Go-to M&E Resources
When I design an M&E framework or put together M&E tools – I really like to share key documents with my client to give a background...
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Sep 23, 20152 min read
Combatting Organizational Fragmentation
Whatever health systems problem I am analyzing, in whatever state, country or region, all have one thing in common: they are created...
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Aug 11, 20152 min read
Educated Girls Rule the World
What is the best way to empower women and improve health outcomes? We know that the most effective way out of poverty is to empower...
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Jul 1, 20153 min read
I went to my first hackathon & won (...happy dance)
Last weekend I went to my first hackathon, with little idea of what to expect. CAMTECH – a program based in the Massachussetts General...
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Jun 9, 20154 min read
New Rules for Documentation
One of the things that breaks my heart in public health and development is the big fat report that no one reads (not on the scale of IMR...
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May 18, 20153 min read
Personal Health Apps: Making you Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Personal health apps offer the opportunity to better manage your health and the possibility of surveillance. Personal health apps hold a...
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Apr 19, 20153 min read
Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Epic Measures
A book about the measurement of Disability Adjusted Life-Years (DALY) and the Global Burden of Disease Calculating the global burden of...
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Apr 5, 20153 min read
Assessing Health Information Systems: Frameworks & Tools
This blog post was written with support and inputs from Nehal Jain and Vunnava Rao who have extensive experience deploying PRISM and...
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Jan 28, 20153 min read
Health Systems Change Starts with Strong Leadership
This post was originally published in Business World on the 26th January 2015. To see the original article, click here. India needs...
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Dec 16, 20142 min read
Medicine and the End of Life: "Being Mortal"
This week I went along the Bangalore launch of Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal. This is a book about the time towards the end of our...
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Sep 20, 20144 min read
Building Local Research Capacity: Key to Achieving Universal Health Coverage
The example of the KLE University’s success as a member of the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health This blog post is by...
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