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Covid-19 and Fragile Contexts: Reviving Multilateralism’s Promise to ‘Leave No One Behind’

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The covid-19 pandemic is projected to cause up to 3.2m deaths in fragile contexts. Low-income countries and fragile states are at risk of being disproportionately affected because they have the least resources and infrastructure to grapple with the pandemic’s dire health and economic repercussions. While protecting the health… Read More

Bridging the Digital Divide to Engage Students in Higher Education

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‘Bridging the Digital Divide to Engage Students in Higher Education‘ is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, sponsored by Microsoft Higher Education, that explores the impact of the new higher education paradigm spurred by covid-19 on teaching and learning experiences, engagement, performance, and value. While video-conferencing apps and… Read More

Healthcare Innovation Conference: Panel Moderation

At Medidata’s 2020 global conference, NEXT, I hosted a keynote panel with three of the leading experts I interviewed for the 2020 Economist Intelligence Unit research program and published report I led titled “State of Patient Centricity 2020: Advancing from Patient-First Intentions to True Co-Creation”: Alicia Staley, Senior… Read More

‘People Can Change’: Ex-Prisoner Smashes Stereotypes, One Workout at a Time

For ex-convicts, getting back on your feet is hard. Former drug kingpin and inmate Coss Marte is on a mission to change that, with his prison-style fitness studio that opened its doors at Saks Fifth Avenue in May. In The Wellery, Saks’ 16,600 sq ft health mecca teeming… Read More

Richard Branson on Why He’s Launching Virgin Sport

When people think of fitness events like jungle marathons or Patagonian expedition races, they think of the participants as buff fitness junkies clad in tight lycra who could be mistaken for Baywatch actors or Greek gods. Well, just like how fitness fiend himself Sir Richard Branson believes that… Read More