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High-Impact Growth — 94 episodes

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AI Chatbots in Humanitarian Crises: GOAL's Hard-Won Lessons

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Joey Savoie: Why Grantmaking, Not Money, Is the Bottleneck

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Justin Steele on the Legibility Trap in Philanthropy

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AI Philanthropy Is Coming. Are You Legibly Excellent?

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Disability Inclusion in Global Development, with Dr. Victor Pineda

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Grow the Pie: GiveDirectly's CEO on Absorbing the Third Wave

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From Embracing Complexity to Solving the Right Problems

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Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad

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The Last Mile of Family Planning: Lessons from Lafiya in Nigeria

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Why Development Needs More Innovation, Not Less with DIV Fund

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Who Actually Owns This? Naming What's Broken with Nithya Ramanathan

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40,000 Health Workers, One AI-Powered Lifeline

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Closing the Gap: Scaling Mental Health Care Through Local Heroes with Pavel Reppo

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Thinking About Individual Giving? Start Here

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Beyond “AI for Good”: Building Responsible AI

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[Pods Fight Poverty Re-Air] How GiveDirectly is Changing Aid

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What Makes a Dollar Matter? Lessons from Coefficient Giving

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The Thinking You Can't Skip: AI for Good at a Crossroads

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Funders: The Power to Change the System

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A Radical Bet on Simplicity and Affordability

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Leading Through Chaos: Jayson Morris on Grief, Healing, and Emergent Leadership

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Disrupted, Not Defeated: The Next Chapter in Global Development

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The Somatic Edge: Leading with Capacity in a Stress-Filled World with Franzi Gonder

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"The System's Burned Down. This Is Our Moment." With Nithya Ramanathan

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Flipping the Script on Aid: Five Talents' Journey to Participatory Impact

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Cash, Choice and Dignity: How GiveDirectly is Changing Aid

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The People and Planet Parts of Running a “Sustainable” Company

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The Future of Aid: Adapting to a Changing Funding Landscape

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Building SaaS Products for Global Health: Lessons from CommCare & SureAdhere

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From Extractive Data Collection to Inclusive Data Sharing: Nora Lindström on the Evolution of ICT4D

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The Strategic Role of Data Management in Cure Violence Global’s Work

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Improving Health Worker Jobs to Improve Outcomes with CommCare Connect

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Financing Community Health Programs with Africa Frontline First

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Building Tech Products that Matter in a Broken Market

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Harnessing Somatic Intelligence: Tools and Practices for Leading in Uncertainty

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What’s New in AI: Equity-enhancing use cases and Open Chat Studio

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System Catalysts: Why are Thousands of Donated Organs Thrown Away Each Year?

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Solve One Problem: From vision to global impact with Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, Co-Founder of MiracleFeet

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From I to We: Trust, Co-Creation and Ego in Social Innovation with Jeroo Billimoria

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Glasswing International: Empowering Communities through Mental Health Care and Leveraging Technology for Lasting Impact

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Empowering Healthcare Access: How the US Digital Service at CMS is shaping policies and creating an equitable digital future

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Equity and AI in Global Health: leveraging AI to benefit underserved populations and dispel Inequitable Dystopia

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Category Design and why it matters for Global Health and Development Organizations engaged in Breakthrough Work

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Reimagining Tuberculosis Treatment and Care: Putting People at the Center of Tech Innovation with Jackie Huh

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Enabling and Elevating Community Health Workers across the US: Insights from MHP Salud’s Impact Delivery Approach to Technology

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Introducing Impact Delivery: Raising the Bar for Digital In Global Health & Development

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From Skepticism to Scale: Lessons from Friendship Bench with Dr. Dixon Chibanda

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Ethiopia’s Digitization Journey: The Path to Paperless with Dr. Girma Tadesse

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How the proCHW movement can enable quality care for all with Dr. Madeleine Ballard

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Too Valuable to Fail | Your Questions Answered

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Scaling mental health care: Exploring the intersection of mental health, physical health, human connection & technology

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Empowering TB Patients through Technology: The SureAdhere Impact

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Taking New Technology from Research to Commercial Scale: The SureAdhere Story with Dr. Richard Garfein and Dr. Kelly Collins

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Reimagining global mental health care with a person-centered, digitally-enabled approach with Dr. Vikram Patel, successor to Paul Farmer at Harvard Medical School

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How Community Health Workers Shaped the Creation of CommCare, the Platform for Impactful Frontline Work with Gayo Mhila

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Championing a Movement to Pay and Professionalize Community Health Workers with Margaret Odera

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Building Resilience: The Key to Combating Burnout in Frontline Workers with Lilianna Bagnoli

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Equity and AI in Global Health: Exploring Large Language Models, Building Chatbots and Embracing Discomfort

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A New Era for Development with Raj Kumar of Devex: Shifting from a Project Mindset to an Investment Mindset

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Undersupported, Unrecognized and Vital: 3 Community Health Workers supported by Lwala Community Alliance Speak Out

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The Four Pillars of Community-Led Health: Insights from Julius Mbeya, Co-CEO at Lwala Community Alliance

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Reducing health inequities through digital innovation with Olukunle Akinwusi of FIND & Erica Troncoso of Jhpiego: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum 2022

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Building digital as a horizontal foundation: Insights from growing Dimagi's marketing team

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Reflections on Starting this Podcast

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How to double the impact of your team with Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers

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Prioritizing better jobs for Frontline Workers in the digital health community with Jonathan Jackson: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Meeting the Need for Global Mental Health Care with Digital featuring Lauren Magoun: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum

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How will advances in AI impact global health and development with Clayton Sims: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum 2022

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Partnering with the government to improve maternal health with Nick Pearson and Sathy Rajasekharan of Jacaranda Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Creating a Digital Ecosystem to Improve Frontline Humanitarian Impact: Mercy Corps’ Approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

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Advocating for Frontline Workers at Davos: Reflections from a Social Entrepreneur after the World Economic Forum

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Unlocking the Potential of AI in Public Health with Rebecca Distler of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Taking a whole-of-government approach to digital health in Zambia with Innocent Chiboma from the Zambian Ministry of Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Embrace complexity for impact: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (Part 4)

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Must-Listen Guidance for Technologists in Global Health from Malawi’s Head of Digital Health, Simeon Yosefe: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Evolve by learning and sharing openly: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 3)

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Lead with empathy and respect: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 2)

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Nick Martin of TechChange on Training, Content, and the Evolution and Maturation of Digital Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum

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Be bold but humble: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 1)

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Bringing Global Health Best Practices to US Public Health Response: Entering the US Market to Meet the Needs of COVID-19 with Carter Powers, Sarah Sagan and Lily Olson

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The Journey to Scale: Lessons learned from supporting the largest digitally-enabled Frontline Worker program in the world with Kriti Mehrotra, Shayoni Mazumdar and Stella Luk

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Takeaways from the 77th United Nations General Assembly: Breaking Down Silos, Supporting the Global Fund’s 7th Replenishment, and Unpacking Global Development’s Talent Gap with Dr. Kelly Collins

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Failure is Not Free: Maximizing Learning Velocity with Funding from USAID Development Innovation Ventures with Kriti Mehrotra, Jeremy Wacksman and Sri Ranganathan

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Dimagi’s Big Break: Receiving Instrumental Core Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with Tim Wood, Former Senior Program Officer

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Solving Hard Problems, Designing Under the Mango Tree, and Taking a Product Approach: Lessons Learned from the Making of CommCare featuring Dr. Brian DeRenzi, Clayton Sims, Cory Zue and Dr. Neal Lesh

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Out-collaborating vs Out-competing: The Secret to Making Progress on Complex International Development Challenges with Gillian Javetski

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Why Improving Frontline Worker Jobs is Critical to Improving Health Outcomes with Dr. Neal Lesh

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Taking Digital Solutions to National Scale with Ismaïla Diene and Fatou Sow (Exceed Market Expectations)

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Developing CommCare to Scale iNGO Impact with Dev More (Exponential Growth Part 3)

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Building a Partner Ecosystem & Subverting the Hubris of Aid with Rowena Luk (Exponential Growth part 2)

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Prioritizing Platforms Over Projects with Danny Roberts (Exponential Growth Part 1)

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Business Model Changes, Key Hires, and Cultural Evolution with Jonathan Jackson and Dr. Neal Lesh (The Founding Story Part 2)

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Fortuitous Meetings and Tough Decisions with Dr. Vikram Kumar and Jonathan Jackson (The Founding Story Part 1)

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TRAILER: Introducing High-Impact Growth