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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Muso shares a warm welcome to Dr. Gita Pillai, new CEO at Possible, a fellow Community Health Impact Coalition orga… https://t.co/kAlTDbqH17
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Muso's work spanned countries in 2019, from reaching a new health care delivery milestone in Mali to partnerships w… https://t.co/UswMK5KmR6
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We are grateful to the partners who made our strides towards universal health coverage possible in 2019 by mobilizi… https://t.co/X7BRJCUDPt
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To take on the enormous injustices of health inequity, Muso's team is growing rapidly, and is looking to hire peopl… https://t.co/yPD9hXIYSu
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More often than not, Muso CHWs hail from the same communities where they provide care. Muso trains and hires local… https://t.co/OUnvLMgU2V
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In 2019, Muso's Community Health Workers delivered care through 1,446,488 home visits to patients across our sites.… https://t.co/EtxSNaeJRl
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"How can you compare someone who has these possibilities living in this neighborhood to [other parts] of Bamako? In… https://t.co/h6J2YDe0ZR
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To meet the health needs of the rapidly growing peri-urban community where Muso works, we are recruiting and traini… https://t.co/7Mr0W8iQI1
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Together, we have everything that is needed to end preventable poverty deaths. This holiday season, please consider… https://t.co/vP6rmRkk85
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The governments of Mali and Côte d’Ivoire have made bold commitments to the health of their citizens. Together, we… https://t.co/3otHFkO95G
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Around 2013, members of the peri-urban community where Muso works had planned to build a new cemetery. Dr. Djoumé D… https://t.co/hEG6p0JMEy
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Our partners at Medic Mobile recently published an article in the journal Information Technology for Development, d… https://t.co/dnlxEgPy9i
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Dr. Djoumé Diakite, a Muso co-founder and our Mali Country Director, shares about our team, patients, and partners'… https://t.co/hlK3eVHTTc
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When we value a healthy world, we must necessarily value the CHWs providing health services. Read how Muso supports… https://t.co/U3OuCczrxu
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Time is of the essence: the hours after a patient starts experiencing symptoms are critical for care provision. Mus… https://t.co/2nGR7jyA5D
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CHWs deliver essential services to their communities on a daily basis. They deserve the systems, resources, and sup… https://t.co/KO9pzqEVh9