Health

Health Solutions for Poverty Reduction

Understanding the Health Pathways out of the Pandemic

Webinar at the Health Summit – see event page to access full recording.
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Five mantras for effective COVID-19 vaccine communication

As scientists move closer to an effective COVID-19 vaccine, the global health community is preparing for how it will build trust in its safety and efficacy. Well-designed communication can increase healthy behaviours, including vaccine uptake. Here are our top five mantras for how to think about COVID-19 vaccine communication.
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Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round Up

In an insights-packed fortnight, Business Fights Poverty has released a new report; asked ‘Where Now?’ in our Virtual Summit; considered what business can do to increase vaccine uptake; and reflected on what digitisation, data and a crisis of trust in institutions might mean for the future.
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Fast + Fair: Vaccine plans must be inclusive and leave no one behind 

The humanitarian organization CARE has launched its Fast and Fair approach to COVID-19 vaccine distribution in order to reach 60 million people – including 275,000 frontline health workers – as well as 40 million people through advocacy efforts.
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Enabling greater inclusion of PWD’s amid the pandemic

Covid-19 has disrupted lives all across the world, limiting our daily routines and mundane activities. For people living with disabilities (PWDs), the pandemic has multiplied their challenges and raised their vulnerability to existing conditions.
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Primary health workforce learning in an era of COVID-19: is digital delivery here to stay?

COVID-19 has forced us all to shift our ways of working, to rapidly innovate and adjust; and we have seen the extent to which this applies to primary healthcare workers. Not only the way in which they deliver care but also how these frontline workers are themselves supported and able to learn.
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Daniella Foster

During our conversation, Daniella Foster, VP & Global Head of Public Affairs, science and sustainability, at Bayer’s Consumer Health organisation, examines how self-care can do so much more than just make us feel a little better.
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Heidi Larson and Scott Ratzan

If you are wondering why risk getting the COVID-19 vaccine; how to decipher the fake news on the immunizations; or curious why businesses should be thinking about COVID-19 vaccines…this podcast is for you. Prof Scott Ratzan and Prof Heidi Larson are two of the most experienced thinkers on the topic of vaccines that the world has. Their entire careers have arguably been leading up to this point.
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Where Now 2021 – Webinar 1

Our webinar explored “Understanding the Health Pathways out of the Pandemic” and discussed building vaccine literacy and strengthening health systems during the pandemic. Topics
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Corruption, Covid-19 and Inequality: the vital role of companies in preventing this deadly mixture

With over 1.4 million deaths, COVID-19 has disrupted health systems all over the world and highlighted profound inequality. Corruption during the pandemic has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots. Alongside policy makers, there is much that businesses can do to tackle corruption in the response to COVID-19 and contribute to more equal societies.
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A sustainable equitable food system needs to be nourished at the source

COVID-19 has exposed many of the vulnerabilities in our food system, one of which is just how reliant global supply chains are on people’s well-being at every step of the journey. The small-scale farmers in emerging markets who produce much of the world’s food ingredients, live in countries that face high rates of malnutrition, with many farming households unable to eat healthily themselves.
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SEMINAR VIDEO: WHY IS THE PANDEMIC DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS?

Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School, King’s College London, talks to us about the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women entrepreneurs.
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How Africa is using medical drone delivery to combat COVID-19

Zipline helps national health systems react effectively to medical emergencies in remote communities. Here they share their past experience in combatting Ebola in West Africa, and their current role in Ghana and Rwanda’s efforts to plan and respond to COVID-19.
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How solar-powered tablets are educating rural communities about COVID-19

In the wake of the outbreak of the novel corona virus and realizing the need to disseminate information about the spread and prevention of COVID19 and other health-related issues, the Community Tablet initiative, with support received from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is conducting digital campaigns in communities that are otherwise excluded from digital information.
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Saving the lives of the rich and the urban poor through cross-subsidisation

Carolina Zishiri and Andrew Kaiser-Tedesco interview Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Founder and CEO of LifeBank; Africa’s healthcare supply chain engine. Temie has years of health management experience with the Department For International Development (DFID), World Health Organization, UNDP, and the Lagos State Government. In 2014, the BBC listed her as one of the 100 women changing the world. She was also recognised as an African innovator by Quartz and the World Economic Forum.
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Health 2020 – Webinar

Our webinar explored “How can we ensure hand hygiene for all?” and celebrated Global Handwashing Day while discussing health challenges and strategies for encouraging
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Health 2020 – Online Written Discussion

Our online written discussion explored “How can self-care help health systems rebuild better during COVID-19?” The debate focused on the benefits and challenges of
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Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods for all

Among the major inequities in the food system is the accessibility and affordability of nutritious and healthy foods across the world. Currently, around 26% of the global population experiences moderate to severe levels of food insecurity and lacks regular access to nutritious and healthy food.
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Pakistani start-up repurposes to help healthcare system cope with pandemic

Nabeel Siddiqui is the CEO and co-founder of a Pakistani start-up that has restructured its manufacturing line in response to the COVID-19 emergency. Siddiqui says, “The biggest issue confronting us right now in Pakistan is not the fatality rate of the disease, but the collapse of the healthcare system under pressure of circumstances that no country was prepared for. Without proper care and isolation, a lot more people will get sick and a lot of lives that could be saved would be lost.”
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Healthy Business Coalition’s Eight-Point Action Plan for Reopening

The dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice affecting Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) are rapidly changing the social landscape and pose a serious threat to our health and economic well-being. The  Healthy Business Coalition  (HBC), a cross-industry collaborative initiative of BSR member companies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, seeks to reimagine how business can invest in health along the value chain in the United States.
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