Posted by Dan Schwarz This past week, Nyaya Health Nepal received a further allocation of 30lakh rupees (approximately $35,700 USD) from the Ministry of Health of Nepal. As part of Nyaya Health Nepal’s public private partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health to administer services at Bayalpata Hospital, the Ministry has made the strong commitment [...]
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Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 29th, 2011
Dear members of the Nyaya Health family, I am writing you today to tell you why we must forever change the way infectious diseases are diagnosed and treated in Far-Western Nepal through a new partnership with One Day’s Wages. That “why” for me was found in Maya, a patient at Bayalpata Hospital last October. Maya was like many [...]
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Posted in News on Dec 5th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our Country Director and I had the honor of visiting Dhulikhel Hospital this week to meet with staff members and Administrative Director, Dr. Rajendra Koju. Dhulikhel is a not-for-profit, non-governmental hospital that offers affordable prices to its patients and manifests a singular vision of high quality and equitable care in rural Nepal, representing much of [...]
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Posted in News on Nov 17th, 2011
It is our pleasure to share an update on what you, as members of the Nyaya Health community, have accomplished via the #nov4nyaya campaign over the last 16 days: $3,740.80 has been raised. This money will enable us to tile 348 square meters, which is 41% of all of our clinical facilities that need to be [...]
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Posted in News on Nov 10th, 2011
Nyaya’s Bayalpata Hospital and one of our partners, TEAM Hospital, in the nearby district of Dadeldhura, were featured in a new article on GHDonline . The article discusses the development of health services in rural western Nepal, and specifically, the cooperation of GHDonline communities to improve communication between local healthcare implementers. You can read the [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 30th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Our wonderful collaborator, Selwyn Rogers at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, and I presented our surgical implementation science protocol at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School recently. The slides for the talk are available here: We received some excellent and insightful feedback from a room full of about 25 [...]
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Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 27th, 2011
Posted by Borgny Ween and Knut Skyberg, Norway During the last year we have experienced how fun it is to combine planning contemporary music shows in Norway with supporting a health aid organization as Nyaya Health. How did this start? It started as a pretty wild idea while planning Knut’s 60’s birthday celebration and ended with [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 24th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya was recently invited to present its work to the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health, of which long-time Nyaya supporter Dr. Knut Skyberg is Research Director and Senior Physician. Chief Operating Officer Dan Schwarz’s presentation was webcast live, and can be viewed here: ————- Dan Schwarz is the Chief Operating [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Sep 13th, 2011
Posted by Jason Andrews Nyaya Health is pleased to be a signatory of the NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening. This code was promulgated by several notable nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to guide organizations to “limit their harmful effects and maximize their contributions to strengthening public health systems.” Our team at Nyaya Health has [...]
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Posted by Duncan Maru I have recently written about the problems we have had in getting consistent, high-quality data from Achham. I will not re-hash here the logistical problems we have had in getting data, but suffice it to say that, despite being an organization populated by a solid number of very data-minded individuals, a [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 21st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In a speech recently on his government’s funding of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s delivered some welcome statements about the importance of transparency in global development aid [1]. Notably, all recipients of British foreign aid “must publish what they do, where they get their [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 3rd, 2011
Nyaya Health’s Chief Operating Officer, Dan Schwarz, was recently quoted as part of PRNewswire’s press release that unveiled 21 global health case studies for open access to the public that were produced by the Global Health Delivery Project and Harvard Business Publishing. These case studies have previously been used as the core of Harvard’s Global Health Effectiveness [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 25th, 2011
After two years of fantastic growth under the leadership of Jon Shaffer, the GlobeMed National Office is looking for its next Executive Director to guide it through its second phase of movement building.The next Executive Director will have the opportunity to significantly advance the mission of GlobeMed, leading the vision and work from our national [...]
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Posted by Ryan Schwarz Recently at the 2011 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, social justice leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined others for a panel discussion entitled Deep Leadership: Interior Dimensions of Large Scale Change (video here). The panel was filled with great lessons for all of us in the social justice and global health [...]
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