Innovations in International Health (IIH) is an innovation platform that facilitates multidisciplinary research to develop medical technologies for developing world settings.
Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IIH's mission is to accelerate the development of appropriate and affordable health technologies by facilitating collaboration between researchers, users and health practitioners around the world
Bill Easterly and Yaw Nyarko take a new perspective on the brain drain in Africa, so often lamented in development circles. Interesting and valid arguments, although I’d be loth to generalize about an entire continent. A summary can be found here.