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02.27.13
The New York Times
Tina Rosenberg recently wrote a story about Positive Deviance for The New York Times, providing an overview of the beginnings of the approach and the types of problems that PD has been used to address more recently.
12.03.12
On Thursday, November 1, 2012, PDI presented the Jon C. Lloyd Community Building Award to Jon Lloyd at the Solutions for Society event. The award was presented to Jon in recognition of his exceptional demonstration of commitment to social change, community building, and social justice using the Positive Deviance Approach.
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12.03.12
As reported in our June 2012 newsletter, PDI is implementing the Community Innovations for Polio Eradication (CIPE) project to identify existing successful and innovative behaviors and strategies to facilitate polio eradication in selected polio high-risk communities of Karachi, Pakistan. The second PD training, attended by the twenty participants, was conducted from October 8-12 at the Institute for Capacity Development, HANDS in Karachi.
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12.03.12
On November 14, PD facilitator Muhammad Shafique presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of The American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in Atlanta Georgia. Shafique’s presentation, entitled, Positive Deviance: An innovative approach to improve malaria prevention and treatment practices among mobile and migrant workers in Cambodia, gave an overview of a pilot PD project that focused on mobile and migrant workers in the Greater Mekong Subregion of Cambodia whose malaria prevention and treatment practices resulted in better health outcomes than their peers.
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06.01.12
In early May, healthcare professionals from Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil had a PD celebration in the Oncology/Hematology Unit. Throughout the week, all doctors were approached to perform hand hygiene with alcohol gel hand rubs before enter the patient's room and they received some instructions about hand hygiene. The same group from Albert Einstein also recently published an article in the American Journal of Infection Control which investigates the use of the PD approach to increase compliance with hand hygiene by healthcare professionals.
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05.31.12
Randa Wilkinson, Director of Training at PDI and a 1985 graduate of the Friedman School of Nutrition, was recently presented with the Leah Horowitz Humanitarian Award, which recognizes Friedman alumni who have demonstrated a substantial commitment to forging relationships based on service in humanitarian field work.
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05.31.12
We recently moved our office to 75 Kneeland Street in Boston (just a block away from our old office) and we now have windows - click here to see our cool new views!
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01.08.12
Crain's New York Business
"Much of Richard Buery's nighttime reading helps him delve deeper into the issues he deals with as chief executive of the Children's Aid Society. He just finished The Power of Positive Deviance, by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin, which highlights innovative ways communities around the world are solving their problems without the help of outside experts." Click to read more.
10.05.11
New York Times
Positive Deviance and positive deviant Jasper Palmer were featured on October 5 in the New York Times as part of a lesson plan for the New York Times Learning Network! Check it out...
09.08.11
A September 7-8 PD workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal facilitated by Monique Sternin and Jim Levinson was a great success. Levinson said of the workshop, "We now have a group of PD devotees who have some valuable skills. They are sufficiently committed that they have decided to establish a PD Nepal 'community of practice' which will keep these folks - and others - well connected and will permit them to share the latest PD activities. Some absolutely remarkable people were part of the group!" Read more...
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