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Arbutus Medical
Canada
Launched in 2014 Arbutus is a medical device company developing affordable world class medical devices. Their flagship product is an affordable surgical drill kit. The Drill Cover increases efficiency and accuracy while reducing the capital cost of orthopedic drills allowing surgeons to safely use a low cost hardware drill within a clean surgical environment. Arbutus sells the Drill Cover in combo kits which include a low cost hardware drill and a set of five sterile covers.
| Human health & social work |
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
United States of America
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.
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Medic Mobile
United States of America
Medic Mobile s mission is to improve health in hard to reach communities. The mobile and web tools help community health workers clinics and families communicate so that more people receive quality healthcare. They are focused on identifying and addressing the highest impact opportunities to use mobile tools currently antenatal and postnatal care childhood immunizations stock monitoring for essential medicines and disease surveillance.
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NexLeaf
United States of America
Nexleaf was founded in 2009 by two UCLA graduate alumni who wanted to leverage the global network of cellphones paired with low cost sensors to achieve social impact. Though the organization only came about recently their engineers have been developing these technologies for the last 11 years and have accumulated experience in rapidly prototyping new hardware solutions developing system and networking software and analyzing and visualizing the resulting data.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Possible
United States of America
Possible is a nonprofit healthcare company that delivers high quality low cost healthcare to the world s poor. They are pioneering a new approach that brings together the best of private public and philanthropic models. Since 2008 Possible has treated over 500000 patients in rural Nepal through government hospitals clinics and community health workers.
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Unite for Sight
United States of America
Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) non profit global health delivery organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight supports eye clinics in Ghana India and Honduras by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care.