APRIL 2018

GSK/Kellogg/USAID Global Health Case Competition: Building Business Leaders in Global Health

This month, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and USAID/CII hosted its first annual GSK | Kellogg | USAID Global Health Case Competition at GSK’s headquarters in London. This competition convened 20 impressive students from top business and public health programs around the world to identify cutting-edge and sustainable solutions to tough global health challenges and build business and global health capacity in top business schools across Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.

A Tale of Two Pills – How the TLD Transition is Taking Shape Within PEPFAR

Check out this blog from USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA), written by OHA’s Emily Harris and CII’s Meghan Majorowski, on how USAID, through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is preparing to transition countries to a new optimized HIV treatment regimen by fall 2019.

What the Color Blue Can Reveal about Pathogens and Contamination

The U.S. Department of State published a CII blog on Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge innovator Kinnos and their product Highlight, a powder that adds color to bleach to increase its effectiveness as a decontaminant and ensure the safety of health care workers in places affected by infectious disease outbreaks. This blog is part of our Grand Challenge Female Innovator Series on USAID’s Medium page.

Workshop on the Uptake of Assistive Technologies

USAID hosted a two-day workshop to solicit feedback on early analysis of the major barriers – and proposed interventions – to uptake of assistive products (AP). Workshop participants included DFID, UNSEO, WHO, CHAI, UNICEF, PATH, Hearing Industries Association, D-Rev, and more. Ultimately, this work looks to develop a global partnership to accelerate current momentum in the AP sector by uniting partners to leverage existing financial resources, attract new resources, and fuel catalytic interventions to address the unmet need for assistive products.