Noora Health
Model & Strategy
Noora Health trains marginalized patient families with high-impact health skills to improve outcomes and save lives. By training families with simple, low-risk skills, we enable them to provide high quality care in the hospital and at home. They build capacity at the household level, and place care in the hands of those who need it most. They meet their users where they are and, with low-cost tools, are able to lower preventable re-admissions and reduce serious complications.
Edith is the co-founder and CEO of Noora Health. Edith believes that everyone, everywhere deserves the access, agency and human dignity associated with access to high quality healthcare. With a background in global health research, program implementation, design thinking and a passion for meeting users where they are, Edith recognizes that the best solutions are often the most simple and overlooked ones. Prior to Noora Health, Edith worked first at The Aspen Institute and then at Population Services International focusing on contractible disease prevention efforts. Edith has been recognized as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow with the Mulago Foundation, Ashoka and Echoing Green for her work with Noora Health.
Katy is the co-founder and Chief Design Officer of Noora Health. Katy believes that disenfranchised communities deserve access to the information they need to improve wellbeing and that lasting transformative change comes from within communities. Before Noora Health, Katy led a research campaign in the Peruvian Amazon on the devastating environmental and health impacts of illegal gold mining, while a researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University. Katy was recently featured as one of the “30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30” by Forbes and awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship.
IMPACT
Currently, the program focuses on helping patient families in four condition areas: cardiology and cardiac surgery, maternal and newborn health, general inpatient care and oncology. To date, Noora has trained over 300,000 people representing nearly 200,0000 patients. The program is being implemented across 53 hospitals in India, including facilities that are private, public, and charity-based.
In partnership with IDinsight, a pre-post study on the Maternal and Neonatal CCP was completed in 2017 in Punjab and Karnataka pilot government hospitals. Results showed a 16% reduction in post-discharge infant complications and a 42% reduction in newborn readmissions. In cardiac surgery, an external evaluation estimated a 71% reduction in
serious 30-day complications and, internally, Noora has measured a 24% reduction in readmissions.
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5 years on, the Legend of Demo Day lives on at Noora! 😁 https://t.co/UiDZD6k3ig
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Nurses form the backbone of the CCP. As primary point of contact, they're responsible for disseminating information… https://t.co/aHvSm7RIUX
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Did you know? ➡️ According to WHO growth standards, exclusively breastfed babies have a more rapid growth rate in… https://t.co/MD1bddRAfU
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World Breastfeeding Week 2019 is underway, and we cannot stress the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for infan… https://t.co/lP9hSJtaHV
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Empathy building, stress management & group discussions galore at the session conducted by local partners for 'mast… https://t.co/P3D5vn5aaH
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The Government of Punjab, along with local partners, launched the Care Companion Program for inpatients at the Civi… https://t.co/oUX67ZCeVg
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We're in Bangladesh! Looking forward to an exciting week of meetings to explore how Noora Health can contribute tow… https://t.co/1ANK8kSIoj
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Interested in innovative, meaningful & impactful public health programs that priortize improved outcomes through im… https://t.co/o49iBIDreT
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Local partners conducted the CCP's Maternal & Child Healthcare training at the JJ Medical College in Mumbai today.… https://t.co/lmEO36sgwT
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We’re excited to have Mark Angelo, CEO – @lmchealthcare, lend his expertise in helping us develop & improve the qua… https://t.co/JGmdW9SQSd
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Post the launch of CCP by the Govt. of Punjab in collaboration with local partners, 85 nurses discussed the medical… https://t.co/kbEynWwjEc
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“Through this programme, the relatives of medical & surgical patients would be trained on how to care for their lov… https://t.co/QqOFP0HXYN
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Another step in the journey towards better healthcare awareness for all! 😊 The National Health Commission approved… https://t.co/DzYVDNFcQ2
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RT @ashwinnaik: "The people who accompanied their loved ones to a hospital were sitting in waiting areas along with the patients. What if t…
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Sometimes, the patients just need a touch on the hand, a pat on their shoulder or just a smile; just to let them kn… https://t.co/OaTUYMz58d
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Our film team works tirelessly to create entertaining yet informative health education videos for our local audienc… https://t.co/7Y1pbJ3kdi
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Our mission is to improve outcomes & save lives of at-risk patients. We envision a world where patients & their fam… https://t.co/EcwhWnXDSp
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Congrats to @MusoHealth for achieving the incredible milestone of reducing child mortality to single digits! We are… https://t.co/OD5rxri32M