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Fuente: World Bank Having just returned from Dartmouth and meetings with the Center for Health Care Delivery Science, I’ve been thinking about the phrase “Delivery Science.” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim’s use of the term in recent speeches is related to using evidence-based…

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation As we prepare for our annual strategy reviews in Family Health, we took time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year. One overarching lesson jumped out at us: if our goal is truly to achieve impact at scale, then we must be more purposive in…

New open position available for an expert in impact evaluation to join the SM2015 Initiative in Panama. For more information, see Job Description.

New open position available for a Senior Technical Officer to join the SM2015 Initiative in Panama. For more information, see Job Description.

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates On a recent trip to Panama to look at innovative health investments, we visited the communities of Carti and Wichub-Huala, in the San Blas Islands archipelago, an autonomous territory of the Kuna Peoples.

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation We recently visited the communities of Narganá and El Tigre, in Panama’s Kuna-Yala Territory. This particular Kuna People’s settlement is located in an archipelago of small islets on Panama’s Caribbean Sea, not far from the border with Colombia, and…

Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Until recently philanthropic organizations mainly used two channels to achieve their goals. They could give money to charities aligned to their vision or they could jumpstart the launching of organizations that would carry out their vision.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists A pregnant Kekchi woman arrives, clearly in pain, at a primary health center in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Her trusted midwife accompanied her on the three-hour ride from their village. Julio, a male Nurse’s Aide, receives the two women. He interviews the women in their…

Fuente: Latitude Magazine Latitude Magazine interviewed the Executive Secretary of the SM2015 Initiative, Emma Iriarte, after her talk in the prestigious forum TEDxPanamaCity. In her talk ‘1,000 Days for the Future of a Child’, Emma Iriarte highlighted the Mesoamerican challenges in maternal and…