ABSTRACT
The values and principles of privately owned enterprises are perceived as more efficient in the delivery of public services. These results of social enterprises, and not-for-profit organisations, are often overlooked globally. Yet, not-for-profit organisations, such as social enterprises, can improve the scale and effectiveness of public health interventions. Their value lays in the ability to be independent, innovative, flexible, and responsive, leading to systemic change, that addresses public health challenges. This chapter will define, social entrepreneurship, and enterprise and proceed to discuss the role of social entrepreneurship in global public health.
