Medic Mobile
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Josh Nesbit
FOUNDED
2009
MISSION
Improve health in underserved communities.
WHERE THEY WORK
20 developing countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, Senegal, India, Malawi and Liberia.
Kenya
Nepal
Bangladesh
Senegal
India
Malawi
Liberia
BUSINESS MODEL
Build mobile and web tools for frontline health workers, patients, and families and co-design and implement new systems using these tools.
ANNUAL BUDGET
US$1.8 million FY13 (Dec13).
DELIVERED TO DATE
12,070 use case deployed through 7,495 community health workers and 2,000 patients linked to 41 partners across 20 countries.
IMPACT
Focus on increase access to care for people who need it, help people stay in care programs and improve the quality of care, wherever it is delivered.
BIG PLANS
500,000 CHWs, caregivers, and patients using SMS applications to improve community-based health care by 2015.
OUR INVESTMENT SO FAR
US$200,000 unrestricted grants.
A community health worker in Mali uses a mobile application to report the status of a child.
Josh Nesbit is the Co-Founder and CEO of Medic Mobile.
Automated SMS notifications sent to caregivers based on the child’s immunization schedule, and alerts to CHW if appointments are missed.