“Not only are the ‘what’ we do now important, meaning developing transformative medicine,” Nadine Schecker said, “but also ‘how’, meaning getting them to as many people as possible.” Ms. Schecker is the global head of communications and external affairs at Novartis. During a recent interview with The Holmes Report, Schecker expounded upon the changing role […]
Communications: A key part of ethical behaviour in global health
Presidential Precinct Africa Business Summit at US Chamber
As a board member of the Presidential Precinct, Francois Baird, Co Chair of Baird’s CMC moderated a panel at the AFRICA Business Forum. More information can be found on the newsletter
Ask CMC: Making the Most of Remote Meetings
Tips, tricks, advice, and answers for the 21st century global workspace. Dear Baird’s CMC, I am part of a virtual team and find that our frequent meetings are a bit of an ordeal. Some people are shy and awkward; others ramble on and on. We also seem to vacillate between long pauses and everyone trying to […]
The unrecognized democracy benefit: influencing policy in Africa
Co-chairman, Francois Baird was asked to write a thought piece for the IPRA. Companies wishing to influence policy in African democracies must marshal arguments that are in the wider interest and back them up with trusted, relevant statistics. By Francois Baird. Please follow this link to read the full article
Why even good market research is becoming less reliable
There is a widely held belief that views all over the world are becoming more polarised because market research says they are. This is most obvious in politics — people seem to be taking more and more extreme positions. But we have seen this phenomenon in qualitative and quantitative reputation research too: respondents seem more likely […]
Imagine telemedicine #Acano
Should you fall ill at 4am, you still want the best healthcare professionals as you would at 2pm when the staff are on-duty in the hospital. However, at 4am, most senior consultants are at home and out of reach. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance in both urban and rural […]
India’s telemedicine moves into the cloud
Confident in the availability of Microsoft’s Windows (r) Azure (r) cloud service, India has made the bold move to try telemedicine across public and private cloud services. No longer reliant on expensive ISDN telephone lines to connect the patient to the health care provider, the Medical Informatics Group of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) […]
Ask CMC: Presentations
Dear Baird’s CMC, In my job, I often have to make presentations both to internal teams and external clients. Despite the hard work I put into them, I feel that my presentations fall short – people seem bored and are unable to grasp the points I try to put across. Any tips? – Presently Unpresentable […]
What You Eat Matters… to the Climate
At Baird’s CMC, we like to keep abreast of interesting climate change related developments and studies since environmental issues are a big part of the work we do in our Global Development sector. We came across an intriguing study called “The Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change + Health”. The study, which was conducted by […]
One Africa, One Market
By Francois Baird In the words of a recent guest column in The New Age, “Suddenly, everyone is in love with Africa.” We are inching closer and closer to realising the dream of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA), which will cover around 26 African countries and serve a market of approximately 700 million people. […]
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