Joseph TUCKER

Director, UNC Project-China

Joe Tucker is a physician-researcher focused on open innovation and related crowdsourcing methods to spur creative new ideas. Crowdsourcing allows diverse groups of individuals to collectively solve a problem and then implement solutions. He has organized 62 crowdsourcing challenges to improve health, including 11 global challenge contests. Finalist ideas from these challenge contests have been included in World Health Organization guidelines, changed provincial and national health policies, and formed basis of new public health interventions. Data from six randomized controlled trials suggest that crowdsourcing challenges are effective. His team’s ongoing research uses crowdsourcing to enhance HIV service delivery among men who have sex with men in China (PI, NIAID 1R01AI114310), to use pay-it-forward to spur gonorrhea and chlamydia testing in China (PI, NIAID K24AI143471) and to create youth-friendly HIV self-testing services in Nigeria (Co-PI, NICHD UG3HD096929). His team works in partnership with the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) Social Innovation in Health Initiative as a China hub for social innovation.

COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges the world has faced. This virus is unprecedented in our lifetime and requires an unprecedented response. We must work together on new models because our world of tomorrow will never be the world of yesterday.

This 4-day virtual event aims to strengthen and build new forms of resilience, break down silos, and sharpen the focus on global health among worldwide stakeholders.

We will bring together many of the groups traditionally perceived as in opposition to one another in an atmosphere of tolerance, respect, sharing, and open-mindedness, to provide concrete solutions to the world’s most pressing health problems. All of us will have to change our mindset.

Summaries of each session are available in our blog.

Joseph TUCKER

Thanks to our supporting partners

Ahimsa Renaissance Movement presents its 2021 virtual event:

COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges the world has faced. This virus is unprecedented in our lifetime and requires an unprecedented response. We must work together on new models because our world of tomorrow will never be the world of yesterday.

This 4-day virtual event aims to strengthen and build new forms of resilience, break down silos, and sharpen the focus on global health among worldwide stakeholders.

We will bring together many of the groups traditionally perceived as in opposition to one another in an atmosphere of tolerance, respect, sharing, and open-mindedness, to provide concrete solutions to the world’s most pressing health problems. All of us will have to change our mindset.

Summaries of each session are available in our blog.

Joseph TUCKER

Thanks to our supporting partners