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Healthcare
Innovative Therapy for Teen Depression
The success of an innovative new therpay suggests new avenues for incorporating emotional health resources into educational systems worldwide.
How a New York-based company is trying to make surgery in the developing world a lot easier.
![[photo - Medical technology needs to solve a need and be cost-effective.]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/med-tech.jpg "[photo - Medical technology needs to solve a need and be cost-effective.]")
A physician-turned-administrator at Kaiser Permanente discusses cost-effective innovations that improve care.
Research Resources
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2008
THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey Review by Stephen P. Hinshaw
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2008
Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention. —By Corey Binns
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2008
Public nursing homes outshine nonprofits and for-profits.
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2008
When the Salk polio vaccine proved to be effective in 1955, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had to choose whether to close up shop or to pursue a new agenda. The foundation first broadened its mission, but lost donations, volunteers, and public support. After honing its mission to birth defects, however, it recovered. Here’s how the organization that eventually became the March of Dimes planned—and survived—its transitions. —By Georgette Baghdady & Joanne M. Maddock
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
A look at how community advisory committees are faring in the health field.
Resource: Blog Post
![[photo - Childhood Obesity Screening May Not Be That Useful]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Healthy-Diet.jpg "[photo - Childhood Obesity Screening May Not Be That Useful]")
Professor Lawrence Wein, Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science, explains why childhood obesity screening may not be that useful.
Resource: News Article
![[photo - Companies Emphasize the Environment Over Employees]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Employee-Benefits.jpg "[photo - Companies Emphasize the Environment Over Employees]")
A professor of organizational behavior argues that "human sustainability" may pay off too.
Resource: News Article
![[photo - Computer Therapy]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/mouse-hand-web.jpg "[photo - Computer Therapy]")
The success of an innovative new therapy suggests new avenues for incorporating emotional health resources into educational systems worldwide.
Resource: News Article
A physician-turned-administrator at Kaiser Permanente discusses cost-effective innovations that improve care.
Resource: News Article
How a New York-based company is trying to make surgery in the developing world a lot easier.
Resource: News Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2005
Americans are in the dark about nonprofits.
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2005
Paul Farmer's Partners in Health has committed to bring about widespread social change, in part by cultivating long-term relationships with people in impoverished communities.
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2005
Though they have their opponents, boutique-style services can subsidize care for the poor.
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2004
The president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative discusses the road to its launch.
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2004
Andrian Nicole LeBlanc offers an intimate exposé of crime and drugs in the inner city. Review by Anitra Lynn Waller
Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Social media is helping people self-assemble for social action.
Resource: Blog Post
A look at how community advisory committees are faring in the health field.
Resource: Blog Post
![[photo - Philip Pizzo]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/2912_1.jpg "[photo - Philip Pizzo]")
In the 2004 general election, California voters approved Proposition 71 by a vote of 59 percent. The initiative established a $3 billion bond measure to create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and fund stem cell research in the state of California. In this panel discussion, Prop 71 key players address the entrepreneurial challenges they have faced while pushing for a controversial, dramatic policy change.
Resource: Audio
![[photo - Don Gould]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/2829%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Don Gould]")
When people ask Don Gould how he knows that his product works, he answers: "Because babies stop dying." As part of a social enterprise consortium, Gould, who is both a product designer and ceramicist, helped to design and deploy simple, effective water filtration devices to the developing world. In this audio interview, he talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about both the traditional production techniques and the new economy models for collaboration.
Resource: Audio
![[Video-Conversations in Global Health with Chid Liberty]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/jD6yRh3aeBI/0.jpg "[Video-Conversations in Global Health with Chid Liberty]")
Liberty and Justice, a for-profit, socially minded company, is creating jobs and improving health care for Liberian women
Resource: Video
![[Video-Solutions for Extreme Need ]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/RF-dOt1oLF4/0.jpg "[Video-Solutions for Extreme Need ]")
What if visiting the doctor to get a CT scan was as fun as sailing on a pirate ship? asked Doug Dietz, veteran designer of MRI and CT scan machines. Dietz had seen the widespread anxiety of children who came into the hospital and wanted to change that negative experience.
Resource: Video
![[Video-Capital for Early Stage Innovation]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/dzsuGhBnoHo/0.jpg "[Video-Capital for Early Stage Innovation]")
Investors provide insight on early-stage startup fundraising and advice to those interested in starting their own ventures in healthcare.
Resource: Video
![[Video-The Global Tobacco Epidemic: Robert Proctor]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ytrl4Tw88N8/0.jpg "[Video-The Global Tobacco Epidemic: Robert Proctor]")
How did the global tobacco epidemic start? And what can we learn from it?
Resource: Video
![[Video-Pharmaceutical Innovation ]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/GRXPq9ic1E4/0.jpg "[Video-Pharmaceutical Innovation ]")
What can pharmaceutical companies do to contribute to global health?
Resource: Video
![[Video-Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 1 of 3]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/13xeVbgYo2Y/0.jpg "[Video-Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 1 of 3]")
A leukemia diagnosis for Sameer Bhatia is the start of a nation-wide project to create a bone marrow registry in India. Robert Chatwani describes one family's innovative effort to create social change and, in the process, find a perfect match for Sameer.
Resource: Video
![[Video-Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 3 of 3]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/3ONcTWn7fSg/0.jpg "[Video-Using Social Media to Save Lives, Part 3 of 3]")
A leukemia diagnosis for Sameer Bhatia is the start of a nation-wide project to create a bone marrow registry in India. Robert Chatwani describes one family's innovative effort to create social change and, in the process, find a perfect match for Sameer.
Resource: Video
![[photo - Marc Koska]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3967.jpg "[photo - Preserving the Right to Safe Injections]")
In India and Africa, syringes are frequently reused, despite the obvious dangers of cross infection and death. Marc Koska talks about his involvement with Star Syringe, which designed and licensed an auto-disable syringe that prevents syringe reuse. He discusses how single-use syringe adoption is progressing in India, and also talks about the activities and aims of his charity SafePoint Trust.
Resource: Audio
![[photo - Thomas M. Siebel]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3690%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Thomas M. Siebel]")
The abuse of the synthetic drug known as methamphetamine has become a top crime problem in the United States, and now a global epidemic. In this audio lecture, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, IT leader and philanthropist Thomas Siebel discusses the nature of meth addiction as well as the efforts of the Meth Project, a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach.
Resource: Audio
![[photo - Robert Klein]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3613%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Robert Klein]")
When President Bush set limits on stem cell research in 2001, millions of families who were hopeful that such research could help alleviate the diseases of their loved ones were devastated. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation audio lecture, attorney Robert Klein discusses his efforts to author and push through legislation in California which, so far, has succeeded in advancing such research. Sharing personal and political struggles, Klein movingly underscores the urgency behind his quest.
Resource: Audio
Case Studies : All | Academic Cases
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![[photo - George Foster]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/foster-george_0.jpg "[photo - George Foster]")
The Canary Fund supports the development of methods for early cancer detection. This second case presents the results of the sponsorship created to raise funding and awareness.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/burgelman-robert-a_5.jpg "[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]")
The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This second case explores how these two organizations collaborate toward a common mission.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Margaret L. Eaton]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/eaton.jpg "[photo - Margaret L. Eaton]")
VaxGen is working to obtain approvals for phase III clinical trials in Thailand for an experimental vaccine against HIV. The company must cope with a host of ethical questions.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Stefanos Zenios]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/zenios-stefanos_5.jpg "[photo - Stefanos Zenios]")
This case details the 2006 decision by the United Kingdom to deny coverage for a new form of inhaled insulin. In doing so, it highlights the challenges to innovators in managing conflicts over the costs, benefits, and risks of new technology.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/rao-hayagreeva_0.jpg "[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]")
In December 2004, the president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement challenged U.S. hospitals to reduce unnecessary deaths by 100,000 in the next 18 months. The case describes a campaign that incorporated lessons from politics and social activism.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - David P. Baron]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/baron-david-p_18.jpg "[photo - David P. Baron]")
Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This first part of the case describes the organization's initial considerations.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - David P. Baron]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/baron-david-p_19.jpg "[photo - David P. Baron]")
Gilead Sciences designs a strategy for delivering an AIDS drug to developing nations in Africa. This second part of the case explores the company’s experience with a distribution program.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Rick Aubry]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/aubry-rick_1.jpg "[photo - Rick Aubry]")
Two social ventures collaborated with each other to help expand one’s solar energy services from southern Brazil into the Amazon region. The case highlights the core factors that led to the project’s ultimate outcome.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Hau L. Lee]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/lee-hau-l_2.jpg "[photo - Hau L. Lee]")
Riders for Health is a U.K.-based nonprofit dedicated to the improvement of transportation systems for health workers in Africa. In 2007, after 11 years in existence, the organization was at a critical point and had to decide what strategies were necessary to expand.
Resource: Academic Case
![[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/burgelman-robert-a_4.jpg "[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]")
The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This first case describes the creation, mission, and strategy of the two organizations.
Resource: Academic Case
The Canary Fund supports the development of methods for early cancer detection. This second case presents the results of the sponsorship created to raise funding and awareness.
Resource: Academic Case
The Kinetics and Michael J. Fox Foundations both support research on Parkinson’s disease. This second case explores how these two organizations collaborate toward a common mission.
Resource: Academic Case
VaxGen is working to obtain approvals for phase III clinical trials in Thailand for an experimental vaccine against HIV. The company must cope with a host of ethical questions.
Resource: Academic Case
This case details the 2006 decision by the United Kingdom to deny coverage for a new form of inhaled insulin. In doing so, it highlights the challenges to innovators in managing conflicts over the costs, benefits, and risks of new technology.
Resource: Academic Case
In December 2004, the president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement challenged U.S. hospitals to reduce unnecessary deaths by 100,000 in the next 18 months. The case describes a campaign that incorporated lessons from politics and social activism.
Resource: Academic Case
Research Papers : All
![[photo - Flu Shot Reminder on Calendar]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Flu%20Shot%20Reminder.jpg "[photo - image - flu shot reminder on calendar]")
Seasonal influenza leads to >200,000 hospitalizations and >8,000 deaths in the United States each year. The influenza vaccine is widely available at low cost and reduces mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs. Nevertheless, many of those for whom vaccination is indicated fail to comply with CDC recommendations for vaccination. If low compliance is the result of careful calculations by individuals weighing the costs and benefits of vaccination, it may be difficult and expensive for policymakers and organizational leaders to increase vaccination rates. However, if low compliance is the result of forgetfulness or procrastination, low-cost interventions that use psychological tools may be effective at increasing vaccination rates and improving public health.
Resource: Research Paper
![[photo - Collaborative Filtering of Medication Lists]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Collaborative%20Filtering%20for%20Medication%20Lists.jpg "[photo - image - Collaborative Filtering of Medication Lists]")
Evidence suggests that the medication lists of patients are often incomplete and could negatively affect patient outcomes. By predicting drugs the patient could be taking, collaborative filtering can be a valuable tool for reconciling medication lists.
Resource: Research Paper
![[photo - vertical integration & Medicare Reimbursement]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Medicare%20Reimbursement%202.jpg "[photo - image - vertical integration & Medicare Reimbursement]")
Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic reasons that may not be in patients’ best interests.
Resource: Research Paper
![[photo - Medical Expenses on tax form]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/iStock_000008765997XSmall.jpg "[photo - image - medical expense section of tax form]")
Workers who earn just below the Social Security tax threshold receive a larger tax preference for health insurance than workers who earn just above it.
Resource: Research Paper
Young companies trying to enter parts of the health care industry by focusing on helping patients stay healthy and allowing safety net providers to use their resources have a hard time attracting venture capital funds that focus more on traditional profit. A recent article by two Stanford Graduate School of Business researchers argues that it's time to change this pattern.
Resource: Research Paper
Courses : All
The two-quarter Elective Course series provides lectures from a diverse group of faculty that expose students to the practical aspects of technology invention and development. The class features a presentation or discussion from one of the guest speakers or faculty. Students work in small project teams in the Biodesign prototyping lab or bench space, collaborating with the fellows of the program.
Resource: MBA Course
![[photo - Daniel Kessler]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/kessler-daniel-philip_3.jpg "[photo - Daniel Kessler]")
The purpose of this class is to provide students with the economic tools and the institutional and legal background to understand how markets for health care products and services work. The class utilizes case studies, lectures, and visits from individuals in the industry.
Resource: MBA Course
![[photo - Stefanos Zenios]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/zenios-stefanos_6.jpg "[photo - Stefanos Zenios]")
This course examines health care businesses and how they use technology (primarily biotechnology, medical technology, and information technology) to improve patient outcomes and manage costs. Through case studies, students gain an in-depth understanding of how new technologies get developed and commercialized in health care, and of how the whole health care value chain adapts to new technologies.
Resource: MBA Course
![[photo - Alan Garber]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/garber-alan-m.jpg "[photo - Alan Garber]")
This course examines the application of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, along with other evaluation techniques, to products and services such as medical care, whose "output" is difficult to measure. It critically reviews studies that apply cost analysis techniques to specific clinical problems.
Resource: MBA Course
Innovators : All
![[photo - Ashanthi Mathai]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Ashanthi-web.jpg "[photo - Ashanthi Mathai]")
Vision care is something that is practically taken for granted in the United States, but that’s not the case throughout much of the world. Some 300 million around the globe suffer from correctable vision loss, leading, as Ashanthi Mathai, MBA '04, says, “to people accepting their vision impairment and adjusting their lives around it.” The result? A lower quality of life, restricted job options, and even further economic distress.
Resource: Alumni
![[photo - Jane Chen (MBA '08)]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/jane_chen_0.jpg "[photo - Jane Chen (MBA '08)]")
Jane Chen's passion for helping others has taken her on an incredible journey from doing social work in China to founding Embrace, a company that sells premature infant incubators.
Resource: Alumni
![[photo - Karen Routt]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Karen%20Routt_0.jpg "[photo - Karen Routt]")
Caring for aging parents is a challenge many face, yet there is no clear path or pattern for how to manage this stage of life. Karen Routt shares her expertise at the nexus between technology and caring for the elderly.
Resource: Alumni
![[photo - Dr. Patricia Einarson]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Dr.%20Einarson%20small.jpg "[photo - Dr. Patricia Einarson]")
With a high-tech background, an MBA, and an M.D., Dr. Patty Einarson has a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, business and medicine. She leverages this knowledge by contributing to math/science education in the public schools, encouraging the kids of today to become future innovators.
Resource: Alumni
Mark Cafferty is passionate about empowering individuals to be all they can be. He channels funds to employment and youth service programs.
Resource: CSI Affiliates
Despite falling to number 49 on the list of countries ranked by life expectancy, the United States still spends roughly twice as much on health care per capita as other top-ranked nations. In this panel discussion, Dr. David Shern and Father Larry Snyder discuss the role of the voluntary sector in this period of necessary reform, and what their organizations specifically are doing to improve the quality of American lives.
Resource: Audio
The U.S. medical malpractice liability system aims to compensate patients who are injured through the negligence of healthcare providers and to deter providers from practicing negligently. Though the system has failed to deliver on these goals, evidence from several studies suggests that wisely chosen reforms may reduce healthcare spending significantly with no adverse impact on patient health outcomes.
Resource: Research Paper
Julie Miller, Editor in Chief of the magazine Managed Healthcare Executive, interviews Professor Alain Enthoven on a recently instated healthcare reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
Resource: Research Paper
What if visiting the doctor to get a CT scan was as fun as sailing on a pirate ship? asked Doug Dietz, veteran designer of MRI and CT scan machines. Dietz had seen the widespread anxiety of children who came into the hospital and wanted to change that negative experience.
Resource: Video
![[photo - Photo: Robert Proctor]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/robert%20proctor%204826.jpg "[photo - Photo: Robert Proctor]")
Smoking has been considered a leading cause of preventable death in the United States and on the global level. This audio lecture from the the 2011 Global Health Care Series features Stanford Professor Robert Proctor, the first historian to testify in the federal courts as an expert witness against the tobacco industry. He explores the scale of the global tobacco epidemic and the social forces that have advanced it as a popular consumer product.
Resource: Audio
