Impact at Scale

EP 51 - Edward Booty - CEO at reach52 - How Do We Act In a More Inclusive Way?

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The Social Innovation Podcast was joined by Edward Booty, the CEO at reach52. reach52 delivers health services in markets others don't reach.

Some of the topics Ed discussed:

  • Encouraged by his father to travel after graduation from university
  • Traveled to India among other countries
  • Worked at a pharmaceutical company in Bombay creating new business models for emerging markets
  • How even some of the people that join reach52 just assume that basic services exist everywhere
  • According to a WHO report, half the world lacks access to essential health services
  • The chronic shortage of healthcare workers
  • Rural areas suffer most from these shortages
  • The sheer amount of medicine that gets thrown away
  • Some of the roadblocks to solving healthcare access problems
  • The impact of the lack of payment systems in the markets that reach52 serves
  • Is healthcare a human right?

    • Other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. Big, Crazy, Loud, and Exciting
    2. Seeing It For Real Is Definitely Most Important
    3. That’s What It Says On the Tin
    4. We Don’t Need Bleeding-edge Innovation
    5. People Are Pretty Bad at Taking Their Medicine
    6. Cash, Cash, and More Cash…
      7. ...more
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