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Joshua Nesbit

Josh Nesbit is the CEO of Medic Mobile, an nonprofit company using low-cost, mobile technology to create connected, coordinated health systems that save more lives. Josh also founded Hope Phones, a recycling campaign designed to engage millions of Americans in global health efforts. Josh and his team have worked in 15 countries in East and West Africa, Asia, and Latin America, using mobile technologies to support a wide range of programs - from infectious disease surveillance in rural Malawi to emergency response after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

He is an Ashoka Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow, Strauss Scholar, Haas Public Service Fellow, and Case Foundation Social Citizen Ambassador. Josh was named by Devex as one of 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development and received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development.

“I am a Social Citizen because our moral circles have expanded past ourselves, past our towns and our countries, to everyone, everywhere.”

Medic Mobile

Medic Mobile develops and extends existing open-source platforms, including FrontlineSMS, OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google Apps, and HealthMap. These tools support community health worker coordination and management, community mobilization for vaccination and satellite clinics, logistics and supply chain management, referrals, routine data collection, and mapping of health services. Their technology is sophisticated, but the minimal infrastructure requirements, remote places we work and the over-burdened health workers we empower are more likely to raise eyebrows.

Tweets

  • joshnesbit
    joshnesbit Unlocking potential for mHealth in global cancer care - Jay Evans of @ACSGlobal on the @medic blog: t.co/sQiHBh63rG
    6 days 15 hours ago.
  • EthanZ
    EthanZ Forbes feature on BRCK, backup power and net connectivity device: t.co/FJcw9jg8Cf Kickstarter here: t.co/1Ppbi63rsv
    1 week 17 hours ago.
  • joshnesbit
    joshnesbit Updated @ITU report for 2013: t.co/d91yqIE8PY 11% penetration for mobile broadband in Africa, 22% in Asia-Pacific
    1 week 4 days ago.
  • joshnesbit
    joshnesbit Headed to the @UN to discuss birth registration and mobile technology with @ITU. Livestream here: t.co/AxokabcTMb
    2 weeks 5 days ago.
  • maryslosson
    maryslosson Mailing my old cell phones to @HopePhones this Earth Day! t.co/w86Z6V06yf @Medic @joshnesbit More info @GOOD: t.co/621aWcs8PY
    3 weeks 14 hours ago.