Our introductory editorial to the special supplement from the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) network provides important context to the included articles.
The BMJ Innovations social innovations for health special supplement highlights some of the most important research work, concepts and practices in the area of social innovations in health. It also showcases the best available case examples where significant improvements in health outcomes have been made.
“The purpose of this special supplement is to spur the development and maturation of social innovation in health as an academic field and to broaden multidisciplinary collaboration to this end. Here, contributors describe and analyse the history, concepts, tensions and research evidence of community-engaged social innovations and related person-centred approaches. The overarching goal is to better understand how social innovations can be embedded in health education, training, research, policy, programmes and systems.
Ultimately, the special supplement will demonstrate how social innovation contributes toward a holistic approach to health and development.” Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD
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Reshare Editorial: Social innovation in health: concepts and practice.
Reshare Crowdfunding for health research: a qualitative evidence synthesis and a pilot programme
Reshare Joint international consensus statement on crowdsourcing challenge contests in health and medicine: results of a modified Delphi process
Reshare Institutionalization of social innovations in health: the Philippine Gelia Castillo Award
Reshare Youth social innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines: a quantitative and qualitative descriptive analyses from a crowdsourcing open call and online hackathon
Reshare A community-engaged mHealth intervention to increase uptake of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in China: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Reshare Approaching healthcare delivery through a new lens: A pilot crowdsourcing challenge to identify health-related social innovations to increase universal health coverage in Nigeria
Reshare Facilitating learning exchange and building a community of practice to accelerate social innovation in health
Reshare The social appropriation of knowledge and its contributions to the prevention of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural contexts
Our introductory editorial to the special supplement from the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) network provides important context to the included articles.
Supported and funded by a world-renowned set of leading global organisations
Our systematic review on crowdfunding helped to inform the development of a TDR Practical Guide on Public Engagement and Crowdfunding
Reshare Lessons learned from applying a user-centred design process to develop one of the largest mobile health communication programmes in the world
Reshare Creating interventions to transition long-lasting insecticide net distribution in Ghana
Reshare Emulating value-chains of fast-moving consumer goods to improve uptake of co-packaged ORS and zinc for childhood diarrhoea: evaluation of the ColaLife trial
ReshareDescription of global innovative methods in developing the WHO Community Engagement Package
Reshare Building the social innovation for health ecosystem in Latin America: experiences and learning from SIHI-LAC
Reshare Social innovations to increase health coverage: evidence from a crowdsourcing contest in Ghana
Reshare Crowdfunding for health research: A global systematic review, qualitative evidence synthesis and TDR pilot for low- and middle-income country researchers [preprint cited by WHO, left]
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This special supplement is kindly supported by the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI), BMJ Innovations and other BMJ journals. It is also supported by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). The call for submissions was in partnership with the Social Innovation in Health Initiative and Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health. It was co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. TDR received additional funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), to support SIHI.
Without these valuable contributions, the production of this important supplement would not have been possible. We give thanks to all those involved.
For the launch of BMJ Innovations, special supplement on social innovations for health, a webinar took place to show how social innovations can positively affect health and social outcomes, drive more resilient health systems, engage communities, and help achieve universal health.
The event was held in English with simultaneous interpretations in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
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