Muso
Model & Strategy
Globally, 5.9 million children died in 2014 before their 5th birthday – most from diseases with known means of prevention and treatment. Muso is building a scalable global model for stopping preventable deaths in the world’s poorest communities. Muso creates ultra-rapid health systems, optimized to save lives by reaching patients early in the course of their illness. Community health workers and community member search for patients through door-to-door home visits in order to connect them with health care early. Community health workers also provide a package of life-saving health care services in home during these visits. Muso removes point-of-care fees, builds infrastructure and trains staff so that government clinics can provide universal, early access to care.
Ari Johnson is a physician and Assistant Professor in the division of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Muso’s co-founders, as researchers in Mali, found themselves attending the funerals of babies and young mothers weekly, and accompanying their Malian neighbors as they struggled and often failed to access health care. It was out of these experiences that they founded Muso. Initially run by volunteers out of a converted storage closet, Muso is now a rapidly growing organization, building a scalable model and achieving global impact. Trained at Harvard, Brown, and UCSF, Ari is a Goldwater Scholar, winner of the McIlwain Award, the 2014 UCSF Global Service Award, the 2014 UCSF Innovation Challenge and the Harvard Presidential Scholars Public Service Award.
IMPACT
A 2018 study in BMJ Global Health documented that the areas where Muso works in peri-urban Mali have achieved and sustained the lowest rates of child death in sub-Saharan Africa, five years running.
In 2018, Muso operated nine sites across two regions of Mali, trained 381 CHWs, and provided care through 123,137 clinic visits and 1,190,693 home visits.
In 2019, Muso will serve a population of more than 350,000 people and support Mali’s national plan to provide 3.4M people with health care.
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"By conservative estimate, if user fees were never implemented in twenty African countries, we could have prevented… https://t.co/8ZGXkPcFmI
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Muso embeds staff in the Malian government to support national scale-up of our 360° Supervision model. With Muso's… https://t.co/zgeJpJ2OGX
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Our donors and partners have supported over five million home visits to date. Your gift brings evidence-based pract… https://t.co/nyiiqH4Dnz
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In attempting to reach care, a typical patient can encounter multiple roadblocks while struggling to access the pas… https://t.co/I0rMXia8W1
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As we support the Malian government to scale Muso's 360 Supervision model nationally, we are thrilled to work close… https://t.co/QBX25hwGWF
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Following Mali’s President's commitments to a sweeping national health reform, Muso has provided intensive support… https://t.co/UoIGc0YK1B
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Muso provides care without charging our patients anything. You read that right: no point-of-service fees, both at t… https://t.co/KFGMUcM7dE
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Muso participated as a partner in the Health Systems Entrepreneurship project, hosted by the Bertha Center for Soci… https://t.co/F2ghea3LlO
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We don't shy away from the truth. At Muso, we rigorously evaluate everything we do to constantly improve our model… https://t.co/Q3J4HIk7um
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In Q2, Muso CHWs achieved a milestone: our five millionth home visit. Our Q2 2019 Impact Report is out now, detaili… https://t.co/CDaAlbx10y
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Congratulations to our partners @integrateglobal as they expand their care delivery in Togo! Muso worked with Integ… https://t.co/ibTL77ImHM
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"Salimata and Djelika’s relationship, the relationship between the CHW and the patient, is the crux of Muso’s Proac… https://t.co/KOkpUizAAj
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RT @integrateglobal: "Imagine a world in which pregnant women and little kids get regular home visits from a health worker—and free health…
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Our quarterly newsletter came out this month. Did it arrive in your inbox? Never miss another by signing up today:… https://t.co/YZFHAjjrSc
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Baseline data from Muso's ProCCM Trial underscore an enormous need for a health care system that reaches more patie… https://t.co/I36jUI6BOI
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RT @chw_impact: Welcome to the newest Coalition member, @Wuqukawoq! Maya Health Alliance/Wuqu' Kawok works w/🇬🇹 Guatemala’s most impoverish…
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Last week, NPR highlighted the work of our Malian government partners as they expand evidence-based health care to… https://t.co/u1y70Xwe3u
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Preliminary findings from Mali's national Demographic and Health Survey found that Mali has a child mortality rate… https://t.co/VKvz8PdobR
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Half of children with a recent fever had been connected to treatment, according to Mali's 2018 Demographic and Heal… https://t.co/34Bfmgtcar
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We are grateful to our partners at @FHWCoalition for leading advocacy efforts on House Resolution 467, "recognizing… https://t.co/UdGlKHdziv