I have spent the last two days (27 to 28-Nov-19) at the Africa Health Extension Summit (#AHES19) in Nairobi where I told an abbreviated version of the ColaLife story to illustrate the role of innovation in improving healthcare. Key themes were: why we need innovation in the healthcare sector what we mean by innovation how […]
Design thinking for Global Health – Royal Society of Medicine
12 February 2019 by
On 5-Dec-18 I was honoured to be invited as a keynote speaker to contribute to an event held at the Royal Society of Medicine on the role of design in global health. It was as if the event had been set up to showcase our work. Regular readers will be aware of the crucial role […]
WANTED: volunteer video editor
10 July 2017 by
Simon Berry gave a ‘milestone presentation’ recently in Geneva at the Takeda Access to Medicines conference. The presentation outlined our journey so far, the set-backs we’ve had and how we’ve overcome them and presented the current status of our work. The presentation was captured as a quality video. We would like to publish this online […]
Spring in Paris | Presentation to the IHI/BMJ in Paris | 11-Apr-14
13 April 2014 by
I have just got back to Zambia from Paris where I was honoured to give the closing keynote presentation at a massive conference organised by the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare. The conference was entitled “Strive for Excellence. Seek Value. Spark a revolution.” so I was in my element! There were around […]
ColaLife is the Royal Society of Medicine’s ‘Lecture of the Week’
16 March 2011 by
I am very pleased that the Royal Society of Medicine has chosen my presentation at the innovations event as their ‘Lecture of the Week’. Click here to view it on the RSM website.
Royal Society of Medicine presentation now live
4 March 2011 by
For those of you who were unable to make the ColaLife presentation at the Royal Society of Medicine last Thursday (24/2/11), you can now watch the presentation here. This has been very cleverly put together by the guys at Inclusive Digital TV who have synchronised the video with the slides in a very effective way. A […]
The Royal Society of Medicine | the exit conversation
26 February 2011 by
This is just a quick post to put everybody’s mind at rest. Despite the anxiety going into the Royal Society of Medicine last night (24/2/11) to deliver a presentation of ColaLife – it seemed to go quite well and I got lots of really good questions and made some great contacts. As tends to happen […]
ColaLife Presentation | TEDx Berlin
7 December 2010 by
Thanks to the good people of red onion who hosted TEDx Berlin for the invitation to speak and for allowing me to open the 1000th TEDx event. It was a great, if nerve-wracking, honour.
TEDx Youth Berlin | 14 November 2010
15 November 2010 by
This is quick post to publish the flip video of my presentation of ColaLife at TEDx Youth Berlin yesterday (14/11/10). Thanks go to Dr Joana Breidenbach who did the filming. Joana is the founder of betterplace.org. Today is the big day with a presentation to the main TEDx Berlin event. The event is sold out with […]
The starting point for the ColaLife Pilot
9 November 2010 by
This diagram gives an overview of the outcome of our discussions with stakeholders in Zambia. This is the starting point for the development of a plan for a pilot of the ColaLife concept in Zambia. No doubt things will change as we work together on this. This diagram is a lot to take in so […]
