A hand hygiene initiative that used positive deviance, a community-based social change strategy, led to a 33.3 percent increase in hand hygiene compliance and 43.2 percent decrease in the ...

Northern Somalia’s economy relies heavily on livestock. About 80 percent of the region’s annual exports are meat, milk and wool from sheep and other animals. Yet years of drought have decimated the ...

Positive deviance is a behavioural and social change approach that identifies and learns from individuals or groups who have better solutions to problems than their peers. It is based on the ...

Recent research revealed “positive deviants” in the healthcare setting may help improve MRSA infection rates, according to a New Jersey Institute of Technology news release. The research focus ...

In the absence of an adequate response to unsustainability by political leaders, it is up to the rest of us to lead the way. Sara Parkin is a founder director of Forum for the Future.