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Fuente: The World Bank's These past weeks I’ve visited several southern African nations to assist on-going evaluations of health sector pay-for-performance reforms. It’s been a whirlwind of government meetings, field trips, and periods of data crunching. We’ve made good progress and also…

Fuente: The Washington Post Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better…

Fuente: The Lancet Maternal and child undernutrition was the subject of a Series of papers in The Lancet in 2008. Five years after the initial series, we re-evaluate the problems of maternal and child undernutrition and also examine the growing problems of overweight and obesity for women and…

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…