Guests

Part 1:

Vinesh Kapil, Saving Lives At Birth, USAID

Jocelyn Brown, Medical Device Innovator, 3rd Stone Design

Mary-Carmel Kearney, Medical Device Innovator, Queen’s University School of Pharmacy

Part 2:

Kelly Thompson, Gender Advisor, Women in Global Health

Sharmila Anand, Managing Director, Social Enterprise Empowering Healthcare Professionals (SEHPL)

Samalie Kitooleko, Nurse and Researcher, Uganda’s Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry

This week Geneva Geeks is a two-part episode about the innovation and collaboration that is central to the 70th World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva this week. The first half of the podcast features the work being done to invent medical devices that expand the possibilities of care in low resources settings. The second half of the podcast features the women honored at this year’s Heroines of Health award ceremony. The Geneva Geeks team couldn’t stop thinking about the unleashed potential of connecting global leaders shaping health policy with the people working on the edge of innovation and in difficult environments to ensure we all can realize the dream of living healthy.