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Want to learn more about social entrepreneurship and how global health social ventures can scale their impact? Check out our round up of social impact reads:

15 Social Impact Research Topics You Want to Read - CASE For 15 years, CASE has been studying the social impact field and how social entrepreneurs can leap the chasm from innovative idea to sustainable impact. Greg Dees, one of our founders and a pioneer in the study of social entrepreneurship, …

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Hey social entrepreneurs: Unsure how to measure your organization's impact? Check out these FREE how-to resources from DGHI's Evidence Lab and The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke - SEAD! Tell us what you think of the tools and share YOUR top social entrepreneur resources in the comments! http://bit.ly/2w5KM5C

Check out the final two FREE toolkits the DGHI Evidence Lab have developed for global health social ventures. Toolkits include how to leverage data to inform your expansion plans and finding the right economic analysis for your evaluation needs. Download for free:

DGHI’s Evidence Lab Creates Evaluation Toolkit for Healthcare Innovators Thousands of social entrepreneurs are hard at work around the world trying to solve the most pressing challenges in global health, but they often lack a clear approach to evaluate their enterprise’s impact. DGHI's Evidence Lab has developed a set of five easy-to-use evaluation tools to address this…

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INVENTED at Duke - 1st Annual Celebration Duke is an innovative place to be right now. With over 300 inventions, 85 issued patents, and 11 new start-ups this year, we’re turning our world class research into viable commercial products—and that’s something to celebrate! Duke OLV and Duke I&E’s Celebration is an opportunity to...

“About a million children [around the world] get TB every year, and many go undiagnosed,” explained Dr. Shelly Batra, president of the TB treatment and prevention nongovernmental organization, Operation Asha. “India has the highest burden of TB in the world, so it goes without saying that we have the highest number of children with TB in the world.”

India's battle with TB continues to take lives. And treatment is still hard to manage. India has more cases of tuberculosis than anywhere else in the world. And despite government efforts to halt the spread of the disease, there were more than 2 million cases in 2015. While progress is being made, it's slow and uneven.

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Interested in how startups are using technology to address behavioral health and wellness issues? Check out upcoming webinar hosted by CB Insights:

Mental Health and Wellness Technology This briefing will cover the wide-ranging mental health and wellness tech landscape with a special focus on mobile health.

Check out what Duke MBA students learned when they visited SEAD Innovator Operation ASHA:

Health Sector Management Around the World - Duke Cross Continent MBA Student Blog The Health Sector Management (HSM) program provides unique opportunities as students learn about the health care challenges in each country visit.