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Because Systems Fail
3.5 billion people – more than half of the world’s population – live in countries that do not provide access to basic, essential health services. These conditions have created an unfathomable global crisis. InnovationsCZ creates structures that mitigate these failures through collaborating with impacted communities to generate creative healthcare solutions.
Because Supply Chains Always Fail
2 billion people live in countries that are centers of long-term conflict, violence and corruption. These conditions degrade local health-care providers’ access to critical equipment and supplies.
Innovations CZ mitigates these supply chain problems. Our focus: provide for the health care needs of patients through creativity and innovation by minimizing the need for local health care providers to turn to a global supply chain. We design, manufacture or test supplies locally.
INNOVATIONS
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About Us
Co-Founders Margaret Salmon, MD, MPH, and Christian Salmon, DSc, employ human-centered design methodology to first identify local health-care deficits. They then mobilize a multidisciplinary team, working with local populations, to brainstorm ideas on local manufacture of prototypes to design a inexpensive solutions using indigenous products. They follow up this work with observational study, validation and randomized control trials, publishing results in peer-reviewed journals.
With this approach, they have pioneered innovative products, techniques and services to improve the local provision of health care to those living in great poverty and conflict.
What We Do
Nerve Blocks
Because crying room should not exist
Cassava Gel
Make it local
Ultrasound Gel Pad
Make it affordable and accessible
Ensuring Drug Quality
Shedding light on medications
Park Triage
Capacity building to save lives
Community Access Point
Connecting students to resources
Our Publications
Maximizing the Interview
Crisis Intervention Through Schools Background It is well documented that a significant percentage of children that present to urban Title 1 California schools, and other
Park Triage
Alleviating ranger danger The ProblemNational Parc de Lomami, home to some of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s greatest biodiversity, is the country’s newest national park,
Ensuring Drug Quality
Shedding light on your medications The ProblemEstimates are 30-50% of available medications are of low quality or counterfeit in countries with failed governance and
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