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 […]
Visionary Program – 7 questions
31 March 2020 by
It was a pleasure to contribute to the Ashoka Visionary Program which is open to all and run by Ashoka out of Austria (Europe) and Athens (Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean Region). I kicked off the hour-long session with a short, top-level overview of the work ColaLife has done so far but then focussed on […]
New Resources page on colalife.org
10 February 2016 by
colalife.org/resources We have created a new page on this website to pull together resources that may be useful to others wishing to learn from the ColaLife trial and our work on scaling-up so far. We hope that others will adapt our experience to their own circumstances to reduce under 5 child mortality and stunting from […]
Pre-trial focus group work and findings
31 May 2012 by
In early 2012, as we were planning the launch of the ColaLife Trial – scheduled for Sep 2012 – ColaLife was very fortunate to find a local volunteer in Zambia – Dr Beth-Anne Pratt. A social anthropologist with a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Systems Management, Beth has lived and worked in Africa since 1996 and […]
