Search

Francesca Fedeli

Fellow dal 2015 Organizzazione: Fight The Stroke Facebook | Twitter Questa descrizione di Francesca Fedeli e del suo lavoro è stata preparata quando Francesca è stata eletta Ashoka Fellow nel 2015. A differenza dell'ictus che colpisce le persone anziane, la cui incidenza può essere prevenuta...

Malcolm: Making hospitals more youth friendly

Starting with a pack of art supplies, Malcolm and his team launched a nonprofit and global movement to change how kids experience hospitals through art.

Innovating to Create Health for All

Who can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities? Leading social entrepreneurs are challenging the traditional patient-provider dynamics from an empathetic and holistic perspective.

Erica Gerrity

Ashoka Fellow since Jul 2018

United States

Minnesota Prison Doula Project

Incarcerated women in the US are particularly unwell and routinely denied access to quality healthcare in a system that was designed “by men, for men”. Through Ostara, Erica Gerrity transforms the experience of health education and prison birth and – in so doing – correctional facilities themselves...

Rustam Nabiev

Ashoka Fellow since May 2016

Sweden

Shifo

Shifo’s MyChild solutions are designed with and for frontline workers, enabling them to easily track individual children and entire communities’ immunization records and preventive health needs over time, which is currently used by over 600 health service delivery points across Afghanistan, Uganda...

Ines Fernandez

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2014

Philippines

ARUGAAN

Francesca Fedeli

Ashoka Fellow since Jun 2015

Italy

Fight the Stroke

Although stroke is often perceived as occurring primarily among the elderly, it also strikes infants, and can even occur before birth. It is one of the top ten causes of death for children, yet public awareness is extremely low, early detection is limited, and rehabilitation is inadequate. Francesca...

Francesca Fedeli

Ashoka Fellow since Jun 2015

Italy

Fight the Stroke

Ashoka Fellow Catalina Escobar, this week's CNN Hero, is a lifeline for teen mothers in Colombia

Long-time advocate for the health of young girls and women Catalina Escobar was recently recognized as a CNN Hero. Escobar works as a "community crusader" in Cartagena, one of Colombia's largest cities where one-third of residents live at or below the poverty line, and, to complicate matters even...

A Huge Energy Came Through the Prison Walls to Me

We in Hungary who are fighting for the freedom of an Ashoka Fellow Dr. Agnes Gereb, for the right of midwives to assist at homebirths and for the rights of Hungarian mothers' to fulfill their constitutional right to homebirth have been so fortunate to have Ashoka as our ally and friend. From the...