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Climate change & family planning: Communicating new concepts – III

In two of our recent posts, we described to you our engagement with an international foundation that wanted to appropriately communicate new findings about the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. (If you missed these posts, click here and here to read them.) Read on to know about […]

Climate change & family planning: Communicating new concepts – II

Last week, we talked about the initial phase of our engagement with an international foundation that wanted to appropriately communicate new findings about the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. (If you missed this blog post, click here to read it.) As we mentioned, one of the key […]

India – The Internet enables remote diagnosis of heart attacks and strokes

In an ICU department of a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, a doctor hundreds, even thousand miles away is able to diagnose whether a patient has suffered a heart attack or stroke using telemedicine in a matter of minutes. The patient is monitored using a ECG device that is connected to the Internet. A […]

Climate change & family planning: Communicating new concepts – I

A few years ago, an international foundation funded a sophisticated peace of research to examine the links between meeting the unmet need for family planning and climate change mitigation. This research, conducted by a leading research institute, involved both economics and climate science. The key findings included the following: Meeting the unmet need for family […]

India and HP develop new system for better healthcare

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] and IT giant Hewlett Packard have announced the development of a system that would provide affordable health care to the rural poor and at the same time facilitate faster discovery of drugs for various diseases. The system is based on a truly innovative combination of the latest […]

On Climate Change, Part 2: The Hope on the Horizon

“We need to have more such research that takes climate change away from the discussion on drowning polar bears and talks about how it is going to impact us right here, right now” In the second part of this four-part series, Baird’s CMC consultant Aditya Bahadur discusses the hope on the horizon for tackling climate […]

On Climate Change, Part 1: The American Presidential Election

“Reconciling industrial growth with climate change has become a clear and much more stark choice for Obama through his last term” Hurricane Sandy brought climate change to the fore in a presidential race that had until then remained largely silent on the issue. But, according to Aditya Bahadur, a Baird’s CMC consultant who is also […]

Act of Nature Creates ‘Chatter’ on Climate Change

Hurricane Sandy brought climate change issues to stark light in the American Presidential elections held this November. Perhaps the most high-profile example was when Michael Bloomberg, three-term mayor of New York and perhaps America’s most prominent high-information swing voter, pointedly endorsed President Obama on November 1st. Bloomberg wrote in an op-ed piece on Bloomberg View, […]

The startling facts on teen pregnancies globally

Over these past few years, Baird’s CMC associates have had the opportunity to work with a number of important projects that intersect with the critical issue of teen pregnancies, particularly in Africa. For instance, our work with a wonderful initiative called Mapping Pathways found us speaking with Dr. Melissa Wallace about the correlation between early […]

The Thriving Newspaper Industry in India: Is this good or bad for journalism?

At Baird’s CMC, we love to keep abreast of all media-related developments because our communications strategies often involve working closely with journalists. So it was interesting to come across a wonderful article in the New Yorker by Ken Auletta (“Citizens Jain”, Oct 8 2012). Auletta focuses on the Times of India, which with a daily […]