We are pleased to announce that the peer-reviewed journal – BMJ Innovations – has published a second paper based on our work on co-packaged ORS and Zinc in Zambia. Design thinking to improve rational use of oral rehydration salts: lessons from an innovative co-packaged diarrhoea treatment kit describes the processes we followed in designing and […]
ColaLife to feature in Design Museum Holon, Israel
4 April 2023 by
The original ColaLife ORS/Zinc Co-pack will go on display as part of a Food & Design exhibition in Holon Israel from May to October. To quote the organisers: The exhibition, curated by Liora Rosin and Dana Benshalom, will explore the basic yet intricate relationship between humans and their food, and the entangled role design plays […]
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: Would you like to be supported to set up a new NGO to improve access to co-packaged ORS and Zinc?
21 February 2023 by
Charity Entrepreneurship is a very interesting organisation. It seeks to have a big impact by researching and selecting ideas that, if successfully implemented, would have a huge positive impact on society. They then select and support individuals to set up new non-profit organisations to make these ideas happen. Successful applicants are given the in-depth research […]
How many sachets of ORS should an ORS/Zinc co-pack contain and what size should they be?
16 February 2023 by
This discussion is based on ColaLife’s field experience in Zambia during the Kit Yamoyo trial (2012-13) and subsequent scale-up (2014-2018) as well as informal discussions with colleagues working in this area and common sense. There is a dearth of research on this specific topic, although it is possible to extrapolate from the scant literature that […]
ColaLife featured as case study in two new books
6 February 2023 by
We are pleased to share that ColaLife is featured in two new books in 2023. The Four Workarounds by Paulo Savaget explores non-traditional problem solving. We are particularly pleased with his sub-title: “Strategies from the world’s scrappiest organisations for tackling complex problems”; it isn’t always big, well-established organisations which effect change. Paulo shadowed us […]
Top 5 Highlights in 2022
30 December 2022 by
2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s top 10 | 2012’s top 10 | 2013’s top 10 2014’s top 10 | 2015’s top 10 | 2016’s top 10 | 2017’s top 10 | 2018’s top 10 2019’s top 5 | 2020’s top 5 | 2021’s top 3 2022 saw us move to work more under the ORSZCA […]
Simon Berry gets OBE – what I feel about it
30 December 2022 by
Jane and Simon with Charity and Jane, two of the Keepers Zambia Foundation Field Officers (March 2018) I have been awarded an OBE for services to global child health in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List. Not everyone accepts an award under the UK Honours System. Benjamin Zephaniah refused his, as he said it would […]
UNICEF advocates strongly for co-packaging in latest market report
14 December 2022 by
It was back in 2018 that ColaLife led a successful application to WHO to change the WHO Essential Medicines List to recommend co-packaged ORS and Zinc. So it is very reassuring that UNICEF have advocated so strongly for co-packaged ORS and Zinc in their latest market and supply update on Oral Rehydration Salts […]
ColaLife trial highlights published by the BMJ
8 June 2022 by
We are pleased to announce that the highlights of the ColaLife trial have now been published as a peer-reviewed paper by the BMJ in the BMJ’s Special Supplement on Social innovations in health. The title of the paper is: Emulating value-chains of fast-moving consumer goods to improve uptake of co-packaged ORS and zinc for childhood […]
BMJ’s social innovations supplement to feature ColaLife’s pioneering work
13 May 2022 by
ColaLife’s pioneering work on co-packaged ORS and Zinc is to be included in an upcoming BMJ special supplement on social innovations for health. Whilst the key aspects of ColaLife’s work were published online in 2016 as part of Rohit Ramchandani‘s DrPH thesis, it has always been a weakness that we’ve been unable to point to […]
