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Whether by using cellphones to deliver follow up care, rethinking good old fashioned ground transport, or involving non-medical providers in health care delivery, innovation is getting more of the right care and supplies to more of the people who need it, especially under-served populations.  

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Al Hammond

Al Hammond

Al is a Senior Entrepreneur with Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship program, where he is leading an effort to transform rural healthcare. Al is a a serial social entrepreneur, author, and a consultant who has worked with numerous corporations, foundations, and government agencies.

Al Hammond’s work is catalyzing change in rural connectivity and healthcare for low-income portions of emerging markets.

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    Kristi & Al - not sure you'll get this...read your conversation almost a half a year later. However, I found the inf [...]

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    Right now, many people fall through the cracks, because the health system’s not integrated. There’s potential to for [...]

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    Wal-Mart could go a lot further than the basics. If Wal-Mart were to learn about our experience in India, they might add [...]

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    Our health care system is certainly too fragmented, but having a large provider with consistent standards and low costs [...]

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    It’s incredibly promising. You have to remember that the primary problem that we face in the U.S. is that so many peop [...]

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    They are very similar. In India, people don’t have the money for health care, or any alternative health care system re [...]

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