February 20, 2013
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Ashoka: Innovators for the Public sponsored an online competition to identify innovative health care programs in developing countries with potential to be replicated in the United States and selected three winners from 373 entries.
May 16, 2012
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Ashoka, via its Changemakers initiative, hosted two international online idea competitions and developed Changeshops, an open-source platform allowing innovators to introduce their projects, seek funding and exchange ideas.
May 16, 2012
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Designing for Better Health, an online, worldwide competition sponsored by Ashoka, rewarded innovative ideas that encouraged people to make better decisions about their health and the health of others.
May 16, 2012
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Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing is an online, worldwide competition sponsored by Ashoka Innovators for the Public. It sought and rewarded solutions that move promote understanding of and involvement with mental health issues.
October 4, 2011
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Beginning in 2002, the MTCT-Plus Initiative established family-based HIV care and treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand, linking HIV care and treatment of mothers to existing programs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
September 1, 2011
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To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks promoted Web-based social support networks called Tyze.
August 4, 2010
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The Guam SDA (Seventh-day Adventist) Ypao Church of the Guam Micronesia Missions developed and implemented the Sustantia Project, a campaign to end childhood obesity in Guam.
February 4, 2010
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In January 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Board of Trustees authorized $2,000,000 for relief from the devastating Tsunami that hit Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bande Ache, Indonesia, and other countries in December 2004.
October 6, 2009
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Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., conducted surveys that compared tobacco policies in four demographically similar countries to understand the impact of national-level policies on smoking behavior.
January 23, 2009
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Radio Bilingue produced a body of health programming and developed a strategic plan for creating a health desk to expand its health focus.
