Results List
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Strategic Litigation
The story of how Atlantic grantees around the world used strategic litigation to advance human rights and equality both in the courts of law and public opinion.
Resource type: Insight
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South Africa
The story of Atlantic’s $422 million investments in South Africa to improve and transform health and higher education.
Resource type: Insight
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Atlantic in South Africa
From 1991 through 2016, Atlantic invested $422 million in South Africa to help advance and support efforts to reduce inequality and improve people’s well-being. Here you’ll find a collection of resources about Atlantic’s work in South Africa, including evaluations that describe outcomes from different programs…
Resource type: Featured Topic
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Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health
Source: Global Brain Health Institute
The Atlantic Fellows program at the Global Brain Health Institute provides innovative training in brain health, leadership, and dementia prevention to a broad array of promising leaders from various professions, including medicine, science, business, law, journalism, and the arts. Through their work, Fellows are expected…
Resource type: Video
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Transforming Global Health Through Hope, Health, Action and Knowledge: Lessons from the Largest Continuing Education Programme in Public Health in Africa
Source: Marian Jacobs
This report describes how with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the School of Public Health at the University of Western Cape (UWC) became a leading training institution for practitioners who today are advancing health equity in South Africa. Prior to the formal establishment of the…
Resource type: Research Report
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Strengthening Evidence-Based HIV Health Care: Lessons for Advocacy Movements and Funders
Source: Dr. Waasila Jassat
This report describes how the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHIVCS) has helped South Africa combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic by serving as a trusted source of information for government officials and medical practitioners about how to deliver high-quality, cost-effective treatment. Although South Africa has more…
Resource type: Research Report
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Connecting Practice, Policy and Partners: Lessons for Advocacy Initiatives in Rural Health from the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP)
Source: Dr. Waasila Jassat
This report discusses the impact of the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), a South African organization created in 2009 to advocate for the health care needs of people living in rural areas. Lessons from RHAP’s activities will be useful to both public health funders and…
Resource type: Research Report
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“A story of great human proportions” – Lydia Foy and the Struggle for Transgender Rights in Ireland
Source: Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
This report chronicles Lydia Foy’s long legal struggle in Ireland to be officially recognized as a woman—an effort that not only ended in victory for her but that led to a fundamental change in Irish law and how society views gender and identity. Foy’s story…
Resource type: Research Report
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Top 10 Lessons
Mistakes? We made a few. Read what we learned in hindsight.
Resource type: Insight
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Our Brother’s Keeper
Source: Flatbush Pictures
Almost 20 years after Duane Edward Buck was convicted of capital murder, his siblings — Marvin, Phyllis, and Monique — reflect on their brother’s resilience in the face of an extraordinary injustice: a piece of explicitly racist testimony from a psychologist that likely sent him…
Resource type: Video
