Tag: Global Heath

Addressing Poverty Through Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship

By Rebecca Obounou | December 6, 2016

I am first generation Haitian-American, born right here in the city of Cambridge. Reverse of how most Haitian-Americans experience Haiti, my parents returned to the country with our family (urban city kids) during my adolescence. We settled in Northern Haiti in a town called La Coupe Limbe and were surrounded by extremely poor neighbors who…

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A Doctor, An Engineer, and An Entrepreneur Walk Into A Surgical Suite…

By The Institute for Social Innovation | August 24, 2016

By Wiljeana Jackson Glover, Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations and Information Management at Babson College and Co-Faculty Director of the Leonard A. Schlesinger Fund for Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship. “Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of…

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