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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

The honest broker collects and provides aggregate health data to investigators while protecting individual identities and privacy. For example, a community health centers decision to allocate a grant traditionally involves the board and management. Theyre usually not part of the organizational team. The first is resource allocation.

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Financier Len Blavatnik Gives Yale $40 Million to Develop New Health Technologies

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Christopher Capozziello, The New York Times, Redux Yale University will use a $40 million gift to expand a life-sciences center that focuses on early-stage research and the development of new biomedical products and health technologies through the support of start-up businesses and industry partnerships.

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Thomas Tighe Reflects on 24 Years Leading the International Health Nonprofit Direct Relief

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Tighe helped transform its operations, embracing technology and courting corporate partners. Tighe helped transform its operations, embracing technology and courting corporate partners, guided by the idea that a nonprofit health venture could and should run as efficiently as a commercial one.

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What megadonors miss about health-focused nonprofits 

Candid

More recently, MacKenzie Scott gave Allyson Felix $20 million in support of her efforts to improve Black maternal health. Opportunities for helping established health-focused nonprofits scale To continue their work, innovate, and scale proven solutions, these nonprofits require sustainable and flexible funding.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

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When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Attaining equity in health isnt always about bringing the resources of the rich to the poor. The United States is in a societal mental health crisis. Image Credit: Dall-E by OpenAI.

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