13. Health System Design Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti (audio only)
PAUL FARMER: I'm going to talk about building the health system so that technology, or platforms, again, some jargon that I really learned from people with trainings like some of those in this room, how can we use those platforms to innovate? You've heard all the expressions since then, Leapfrog, Leapfrog innovations, disruptive innovations. One of the ways that that can work is to not have systems. Sometimes, you can build your own. Another is to have decent elastic ones. So I'm going to talk about that part. How do you deliver services? What is health systems strengthening? And I would like to end fairly early so that this can be a good discussion for me as well. And my colleagues are here too. In addition to Hamish, [? Renee, ?] and their team, with me today is Claire Pierre, who's worked in IT and health systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Haiti, and Emily Bonson, who is-- anyway, I'm her right hand. Let's put it that way. So I want to ...