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February 1 to February 7 marks International Development Week (IDW), celebrating Canada’s contribution to international development, especially in improving the health of women and children. The theme this year is “We are making a difference!” The entire week, Grand Challenges Canada will publish short success stories, showing how our Bold Ideas with Big impact are saving and improving the lives of those who need it the most in developing nations. Through Integrated Innovation in global health, the novel projects we support are making a difference! Dr. Beth Payne, Co-ordinator of UBC’s Community Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) research trials, vividly recalls her first day at Mulago Hospital in Uganda, in a ward devoted to women suffering from the complications of pre-eclampsia. Most…woman’s village had LGTmedical’s Phone Oximeter – an innovative, inexpensive sensor and smartphone app (supported by Grand Challenges Canada) that can easily help to diagnose the early signs of pre-eclampsia - she might still be alive today. We encourage you to post your questions and comments about this blog post on our Facebook page Grand Challenges…

February 1 to February 7 marks International Development Week (IDW), celebrating Canada’s contribution to international development, especially in improving the health of women and children. The theme this year is “We are making a difference!” The entire week, Grand Challenges Canada will publish short success stories, showing how our Bold Ideas with Big impact are saving and improving the lives of those who need it the most in developing nations. Through Integrated Innovation in global health, the novel projects we support are making a difference! Doreen, 24, was expecting her first baby. Four months into the pregnancy, a Community Health Worker enrolled her into the Changamka e-voucher program…program[/caption] On her due date, Doreen arrived at Iduku Health Centre at around 4pm, accompanied by her husband. She was duly logged into the system and admitted for delivery. A few hours later, Doreen developed serious complications, a case of foetal distress due to prolonged labour. The only way to save the life of both…

“Imagine you’re an evil scientist and you’re looking to keep a poor country poor. You know the best way to do that? Block the potential of its women and girls.” As we approach Women Deliver 2013, I can’t help but think about this thought experiment I’ve had pitched to me in the past. Although not by the design of an evil scientist, we do face a state of the world where women experience a disproportionate number of obstacles to living healthy, happy lives from the moment we’re born, through adulthood, and into old age. In an effort to make progress towards better health outcomes for women living in the developing world, at Grand Challenges Canada we aim to tackle the barriers in women’s health through our three targeted challenges: Saving Lives at…Grand Challenge. In this, we seek groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches with the potential to leapfrog progress in saving and improving lives in pregnancy and childbirth. With support of the Saving Lives at Birth Partnership, organizations like Jacaranda Health, led by Nick Pearson, are testing innovative service delivery models in Kenya that increase uptake of…

…discussions around employee mental health and work-life balance, and growing disenchantment with the five-day work week model, the four-day work week has been hailed as a way for organizations to adapt to a changing work landscape.  A recent Devex article explored how Grand Challenges Canada and other non-profit organizations like STOPAIDS and Friends of the Earth Global,…

…Hospital). His research interests include pediatric pneumonia and malaria. He runs projects in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. On November 12, the world comes together to raise awareness about Pneumonia, the leading infectious killer of children under five years old. Last year, more than 900,000 children died from this preventable and treatable illness, accounting for 15% of under-five child mortality worldwide, 2% of which are newborns. Most of the victims live in low- and middle income countries. Oxygen therapy can save lives…hospital. Michael Hawkes (Stollery Children’s Hospital) at work in Africa The health worker on duty that day, Kamukaama Paster, knew of our “Solar Powered Oxygen Delivery” innovation, supported by Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada). Using the sun to extract oxygen from the air to rescue children with pneumonia, was the idea…

On Monday, May 7, Grand Challenges Canada and the Sandra Rotman Centre welcomed several new faces, as the 2012 summer students joined the team. Some are returning to Grand Challenges Canada/Sandra Rotman Centre, while many others are new to these organizations. The four-month summer student position is an incredible opportunity for post-secondary students and recent graduates to get early-career experience, to learn and hone skills needed in global health careers, to connect with inspiring and influential leaders in…communications, where they lend their youthful enthusiasm to our social media presence, recently helping to facilitate the #AskPeter TweetChat event. Each of the students was gifted a signed copy of Dr. Abdallah S. Daar and Dr. Peter A. Singer’s book, The Grandest Challenge. A subset of the summer students pose here with Grand Challenges Canada’s…

February 1 to February 7 marks International Development Week (IDW), celebrating Canada’s contribution to international development, especially in improving the health of women and children. The theme this year is “We are making a difference!” The entire week, Grand Challenges Canada will publish short success stories, showing how our Bold Ideas with Big impact are saving and improving the lives of those who need it the most in developing nations. Through Integrated Innovation in global health, the novel projects we support are making a difference! When Nigerian mother Olufunmilayo visited the Immunization clinic to measure the weight of her one-year-old child with Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD), Primary Health Care…children with normal neurodevelopmental milestones that the Primary Health Care workers had been seeing. An innovation supported by Grand Challenges Canada is incorporating routine surveillance and screening for childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorder into Nigeria’s National Program on Immunization. This is improving diagnosis and treatment and reducing associated social stigma. During a workshop for Primary Health Care workers,…

February 1 to February 7 marks International Development Week (IDW), celebrating Canada’s contribution to international development, especially in improving the health of women and children. The theme this year is “We are making a difference!” The entire week, Grand Challenges Canada will publish short success stories, showing how our Bold Ideas with Big impact are saving and improving the lives of those who need it the most in developing nations. Through Integrated Innovation in global health, the novel projects we support are making a difference! [caption id="attachment_15257" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Group based care for caregivers[/caption] Nekolina lives in Northern Uganda with her eight children, two of whom have Nodding Syndrome. Nekolina reported feelings of sadness and desperation: “Whenever I see other…and she increasingly became more functional. She is now an active member of a community group raising incomes to improve their households. Her mood symptoms have improved significantly and other caregivers in her IPT-F group reported Nekolina is very supportive towards others and has become a model for the other group members. We encourage you…

A main impetus for developing the online proposal development resource at Grand Challenges Canada was to serve a much larger, broader audience than our occasional in-person workshops can reach. We feel that researchers around the world, whatever their area of study, can benefit from freely available and expert-generated tips, advice, tools, and resources to help plan and write stronger, more successful grant proposals in global health. We regularly update the content on our online proposal development resource to help build capacity in proposal development, especially among low- and middle-income researchers.   All of this content is…