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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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jul 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz President and Co-founder of Nyaya Health Duncan Maru spoke recently at the Harvard Kennedy School about Nyaya’s work and challenges moving forward. Following his talk there was a panel discussion with Ryan Schwarz, Nyaya’s Director of Operations, and Bibhav Acharya, Nyaya’s Executive Vice-President. You can view Duncan’s talk here: ———————- Ryan [...]
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Posted in News on Jun 21st, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Last month a 29-year-old woman walked for over a day, and then rode on a tractor for another half day, to reach Bayalpata Hospital. She had begun having labor pains more than a day earlier and had already been bleeding quite a bit – there were unfortunately no functioning health centers [...]
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Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz On April 1st, The Nick Simons Foundation generously donated $25,000 to Nyaya and offered an additional matching donation of $75,000 more – the total donation, if Nyaya was able to raise $75,000 ourselves, would equal $175,000! I write today to announce that with your support Nyaya has not only reached that [...]
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Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jun 7th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Since starting services at the Sanfe Clinic, Nyaya Health has been planning for the ultimate day when we would start surgical services. Now, nearly two years into services at Bayalpata Hospital, we are making preparations to take that next step. Concurrently, Nyaya Health has been developing the basic infrastructure necessary to [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on May 31st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Access to organizational documents are a key aspect of transparency. Overall, Nyaya has done a solid job documenting what we do so that our staff, leadership team, and volunteers are able to access the “institutional memory” needed to get work done. We’ve had a hodge-podge of a system in accomplishing this, [...]
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Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 26th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Data management is a core process of any healthcare operation. Nyaya Health has a central mission of using data to drive our services, evaluate our outcomes, and to disseminate our work to others. We have published papers and have extensive data uploaded to our wiki. Our data management program has a [...]
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Posted by Gregory Karelas Formerly a grain shed, the Sanfe Bagar Health Center (Sanfe Clinic) is the most beautiful health facility in Achham today. It sits above the bazaar in beautiful Sanfe Valley, amidst fields of yellow flowers and a 360 degree view of some of the striking scenery I’ve ever seen. In 2006, Nyaya [...]
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Posted in News on Apr 13th, 2011
Bibhav Acharya, Executive Vice-President of Nyaya Health was invited to present at an interaction between non resident Nepalis and the two ambassadors (Nepali ambassador to the US and the US ambassador to Nepal) in Washington DC. This invitation-only event was organized by The Non-Resident Nepalis Association ( NRN) National Coordination Council of USA and featured in the Nepal News. [...]
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Posted by Ryan Schwarz I’ve written before on this blog about the importance of collaboration in the global health field and Nyaya’s efforts to join with partner organizations to work towards the development of best practices for the field. To further pursue this aspect of our work, Nyaya is a member organization of Still Harbor’s [...]
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