"The world is an intensely interconnected place, yet the methods used for collecting and evaluating evidence often end up missing the links," write the Nicholas Institute's Lydia Olander and the other secretariat members of the Bridge Collaborative, an effort to rethink how disciplines and sectors can work together to solve global problems. In a blog for Thrive, Olander and her co-authors say that t he private sector has a unique opportunity to partner with other sectors to solve problems that in the past were exacerbated by stakeholders and policy makers operating in silos. The newly launched Bridge Collaborative is co-led by Duke University, PATH, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and The Nature Conservancy . It connects health, environment, and development communities to accumulate evidence of change with positive social, environmental, and financial impacts.