Bihar Innovation Lab

What is the internet doing to rural Bihar? Our conversations with officials across Bihar.

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Changing Bihar - 'Nothing Changes, if Nothing Changes' - Design PublicDesign Public

The Lab's busy getting ready for Health Public - Patna Edition. The theme for this convening is 'the role and future of health systems innovation in the state of Bihar'.

We have an exciting day planned, stay tuned for more!

The ANM Workstation reaches its end user the - the ANM. Pictures from Darbhanga where these ANMs were oriented with our product. True to its principles, the Lab follows a user-centered approach to training end users as well. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CARE India BBC Media Action

Check out World Health Organization (WHO)'s Practical Guide for the Design, Use and Promotion of Home-Based Records in Immunization Programmes:

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/175905/2/WHO_IVB_15.05_eng.pdf

We've been reading through as we design a new Health Card for Bihar!

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Did you know that, 78% of children in Bihar, between 6-59 months of age, are anemic?*

Minister Health and Minister Women and Child Development launched the India Health Report: Nutrition 2015 yesterday. Interesting times as we gear up for some work on Nutrition in Bihar.



*Source: RSoC, 2014

Collectively imagining futures of rural India.
Read more about our work co-creating with the Government of Bihar.

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Co-Creating with the Government - Design PublicDesign Public For an ‘Innovation Lab’ to sustain, it is necessary for the Lab to function in an environment that welcomes innovation and shuns traditional thinking. The Bihar Innovation Lab has not only innovated for Public Health, but also carefully crafted an ecosystem of innovation in Bihar for the sustenance…

We love reading posts like this! Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation talks about Innovation (and the lack of a perfect definition)!

Innovation: From Prospect to Product in Global Health The Supreme Court famously said of po*******hy that it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it. In science, we have our share of words that behave the same way.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/the-women-who-keep-nepal-healthy/406810/

"In the decades since the program began, maternal mortality rates in Nepal have declined. They nearly halved between 1996 and 2006. Childhood mortality rates are also on the downswing. For children under five years of age, mortality was 54 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001, down from 61 five years earlier."

The Women Who Keep Nepal Healthy The country's female community-health-volunteer program has been highly effective at helping those who live far from clinics and hospitals—but could still use some improvement

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/midwifing-efficient-healthcare-establish-regulatory-mechanisms-to-monitor-the-cost-and-quality-of-indias-health-system/

Midwifing Efficient Healthcare in India

Midwifing efficient healthcare: Establish regulatory mechanisms to monitor the cost and quality... Devi Shetty has recently argued in these columns (September 10) how red tape is strangling the health system in India and is not allowing simple interventions which can transform healthcare to happen. Without belittling his...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/To-fix-social-problems-invest-in-human-beings-not-tech-magic-Kentaro-Toyama/articleshow/49027394.cms

Kentaro Toyama, former head of Microsoft Research India, on why the use of technology will further a good hospital's life-saving mission, but won't improve a bad hospital.

To fix social problems, invest in human beings, not tech magic: Kentaro Toyama - The Times of India Kentaro Toyama came here in 2004 to start Microsoft Research India, excited at the prospect of transforming a developing country through digital solutions for social problems such as poor healthcare, education and poverty.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/ben-carson-donald-trump-republican-presidential-debate-vaccine-autism-science-government/405901/

"Informing people about vaccines, and trying to expose misconceptions, can backfire. One study showed that people were actually less likely to get a flu shot after being told it does not cause the flu."

How Donald Trump and Ben Carson's Vaccine Comments Play to Republican Fears It's hard to fight ideology with facts.

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23118-rural-children-in-india-have-better-immunization-rates

"Children in rural India have higher vaccination rates than those in cities..."

Rural children in India have better immunization rates ANN ARBOR—Children in rural India have higher vaccination rates than those in cities, and Hindu kids are more likely to get their shots than Muslim youth, say University of Michigan researchers. The