EP 99: Designing Caregiving | Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam
How can we design for trust? What is the most transformative force in healthcare? On today's episode, you're going to learn how students at a design class at Stanford started Noora Health.
Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam are Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 300+ health facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training for post-surgical, post-delivery, and general care, then follows up with families at home using mobile messaging technologies. To date, Noora Health's programs have reached nearly 2 million patients and caregivers. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.
Prior to Noora Health, Edith was a Design Innovation Fellow and Entrepreneur Instructor at Stanford and worked on disease prevention at the Aspen Institute and Population Services International. Edith has been an Ashoka Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago Foundation, DRK Foundation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs at Harvard. She holds a BA from Tufts and MA in International Policy Studies and Global Health from Stanford.
Prior to Noora Health, Shahed focused on improving healthcare for incarcerated populations in the U.S. and on developing low-cost technologies for better diagnostics in low- and middle-income settings. He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and MHS in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and an MD from Stanford. He is an Associate Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a GLG Social Impact Fellow.
Episode Links and Mentions:
Design For Extreme Affordability
Audacious Project 2021-22 Cohort
2022 Skoll Award For Social Innovation
TED2022 Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam
The food Edith and Shahed would treat you to if you visited them in India is first a Pani Puri Happy Hour at the Noora Office followed by Dosas at Jayadeva Institute!
