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Meet the Graduates: Stories from DANAdidik Loan Recipients
Together, nurses and midwives make up half of the global health workforce, but far more nurses and midwives are needed to address the current and growing needs. Latest projections from the World Health Organization estimate that the world will need an additional 9 million nurses and midwives by 2030 to reach Sustainable Development Goals.
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Q&A with NextStep’s Chris Hedrick on Building the Health Workforce
The compounding factors of the COVID-19 pandemic and an aging population have placed an unprecedented level of pressure on our health workforce, putting Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in high demand in the United States. Not only are CNAs highly sought-after amid a caregiver shortage, but this role also serves as a critical entrance into the health workforce. An effective springboard, many workers advance from CNA to Registered Nurse as they grow a fulfilling career in health.
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Learning from Lived Experience with Village Capital, Health In Her HUE and Clinify
In every corner of the globe, entrepreneurs are building innovative solutions to address the most pressing health challenges. Yet, the early-stage investment ecosystem tends to consolidate venture capital among a chosen few people and places. In the US, less than 2% goes to Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, and more than 75% of global venture capital goes to only three U.S. states. Village Capital’s mission—to make impact investing more inclusive by supporting entrepreneurs who have largely been overlooked and systemically excluded from early-stage investing—
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Nurturing Health Innovation Worldwide
With health technology investing at an all-time high, a key question must guide the support of critical new health innovations: How do we uplift entrepreneurs who are addressing society’s toughest challenges in high-need communities?
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Putting People First in the Digital Health Revolution
A digital health revolution is transforming healthcare with the promise of expanding health access for all. The market is massive: global digital health was worth an estimated $181 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow 16.5 percent each year through 2027.
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Nurturing Local Health Startups in the Communities that Need Them Most
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed fragile healthcare systems and exposed and exacerbated social and racial health inequalities around the world. This challenging moment demands that we reimagine newly resilient health systems equipped to replace acute crisis response with preparedness, prevention, and community building.
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Building the Case for Greater Investment in Health
Did you know that only 7% of the investments made within the $715 billion global impact investing market go toward health? Learn how Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures is leading the way on smart investments in inclusive innovation at the front lines of care to help improve the lives of billions of people around the world.
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Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Johnson & Johnson’s Alice Lin Fabiano Is Helping To Change Our World
"Be unapologetically yourself. We are often told to fit in, but I learned the freedom of embracing my own individuality over time. As a female and an Asian, we are the least likely to be promoted to the management level, and because of that, we try to mold ourselves into something to reach that goal, often at the expense of being our own unique selves."
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Impact Investing to Support Health Equity
In 2020, the collision of twin pandemics – systemic racism and COVID-19 – cast a spotlight on deep fractures in our society. In particular, these combined forces made the fight for racial health equity, especially in the United States, more urgent than ever before.
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Investing in Caregivers to Fill Gaps in Long-Term Care
When frontline health care workers are mentioned in the media today, it’s often in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. From burnout to vaccine hesitancy, the list of challenges faced by long-term-care providers has expanded exponentially in the last two years.
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