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Young researcher joins quest to eliminate malaria

PATH promotes sustainable and environmentally friendly health care by introducing systems to manage health care waste. In Myanmar, PATH and UNICEF's project has tested and recommended new strategies and devices for waste management and trained health staff on improved ways of working.

Human-centered design is an approach to problem-solving that puts people first. Their needs, their constraints, their contexts and their perspectives. It focuses on users—not necessarily what designers, researchers, or others think users need.

People-centered primary health care puts people at the heart of the design and delivery of health services. Its chief aim: better health for all. How do we get there? Better information—and use of that information—to reduce the causes of poor health, provide patients with targeted diagnoses, and support people to take charge of their own health.