Essential agricultural workers and their families in Mexico may soon have access to additional healthcare and hospital services, thanks to one doctor and his team’s efforts to expand services at
U-Michigan Prof Jose Alfaro has pioneered new ways to harness sustainable energy from “biowaste.” Alfaro is rolling it out as a new business that will serve other small businesses such
Too often, global development research hinges on the interest of researchers, rather than the knowledge needs of small business people and, most importantly, their impacted communities. But there are times
How does an educator convene a global classroom across a dozen countries, numerous cultures and differing perspectives? Sometimes, it’s better to instead let the students set the pace. WDI’s Education
There are currently about 26 million refugees globally, the highest number on record. Turkey hosts more refugees than any country in the world, including 3.6 million Syrian refugees. Like refugees
Puneet Goenka always wanted a career in which he could improve people’s lives. As an undergrad at the University of Michigan, he studied cell biology with an eye on the
Note: The following post was originally published on NextBillion. By Paul Clyde This past summer, Ghana was selected as the host country for the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade
When leaders at Pacific Adventist University (PAU), based in Papua New Guinea, wanted to add more entrepreneurship undergraduate courses last year, it turned to WDI’s Education team and its Entrepreneurship
WDI designed an innovative virtual exchange program using modern technologies to give students an exciting real-world learning experience.
Sally Stephens, the Feb. 12 WDI Global Impact Speaker and chief business officer of Medicines360, the only nonprofit pharmaceutical company with a marketed product in the U.S., sat down for
Considering how innovative business models can improve access to quality medicines for women regardless of where they live, their insurance status, or whether they can pay will be the topic
The Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance (GHSC TA-TZ) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to strengthen Tanzania’s health supply chain systems across different disease
