WHAT
Sana has developed a model of organizing mobile health hackathon events with the goal of encouraging increased collaboration between engineers and medical professionals and leveraging the growing prevalence of cellphones to provide health solutions in resource limited settings.
WHY
MIT J-PAL
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Anna Schrimpf
Niki Edmonds
Francine Loza
Sana advances a unique multidisciplinary integrative approach to improving global health: leveraging technology to overcome resource limitations, focusing on analytics to drive evidence-based quality improvement, and an educational program for capacity building to promote locally sustained innovation.