Dr. Peter A. Singer is Chief Executive Officer of Grand Challenges Canada. Dr. Steven Buchsbaum is Deputy Director, Discovery & Translational Sciences, Global Health Program of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. David Ferguson is Director, Center for Development Innovation, USAID. Did you ever have the feeling you know two friends who would be perfect together? […]
Bold Ideas with Big Impact®
Browse our Innovations and ResultsMonthly Archives:: September 2014
Scaling impact: The next great challenge in global health and development innovation
A defining feature of the grand challenges approach is that innovation is the highway and impact is the destination.
Placing maternal, newborn & child health at the heart of the post-2015 agenda
Maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) should be at the heart of the post-2015 agenda.
Four-Part Plan for Stronger Funding Proposals
Jocalyn Clark is Executive Editor and Scientific Writing Specialist at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She was previously a consultant at Grand Challenges Canada, a Senior Editor at the leading open access medical journal PLOS Medicine, and formerly Assistant Editor at BMJ (British Medical Journal). […]
Basic Business Terms for Global Health Innovators: A Glossary
Jocalyn Clark is Executive Editor and Scientific Writing Specialist at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She was previously a consultant at Grand Challenges Canada, a Senior Editor at the leading open access medical journal PLOS Medicine, and formerly Assistant Editor at BMJ (British Medical Journal). […]
Wanted: Investors to transform global mental health
In 3 short years, Grand Challenges Canada has become one of the leading funders in mental health innovation in the world.