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Gregory Rockson: Disrupting the Healthcare Ecosystem in Africa through Innovation

Gregory Rockson: Disrupting the Healthcare Ecosystem in Africa through Innovation

Gregory: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! Our vision is an Africa that is in good health. mPharma is a patient-centered, technology-driven healthcare company that is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem in Africa by addressing the fragmented drug supply chain and its resulting impact on accessibility and affordability of drugs and healthcare services in Africa. As a healthcare provider, we provide innovative solutions, including vendor-managed inventory services for hospitals and pharmacies, a pharmacy-in-a-box franchise solution for community pharmacies known as “QualityRx,” aimed at scaling primary care solutions for community pharmacies, and a “heal-now-pay-later” financing solution for patients who pay for their drugs out-of-pocket—all of which mPharma pioneered in Africa.

Rafael Machiaverni: Improving Educational Attainment for Millions of Brazilian Students

Rafael Machiaverni: Improving Educational Attainment for Millions of Brazilian Students

Rafael: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! At Parceiros da Educação, our main goal is to increase the learning levels within the public educational system of the State of São Paulo to the highest in Latin America by 2040. Our challenges include the current learning levels—which are low in Brazil as a whole: only 10% of Brazilian students leave K-12 schools with adequate proficiency in math, for example—and the size of the São Paulo network, which has more than 5.6 million students.

Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Henry Donahue: Helping Communities Reach Their Full Potential through Music

Henry: Glad to be with you, Spiffy! Save The Music's mission is helping students, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music. Working with public schools across the US, we donate musical instruments, teacher training, and technology to jump start hundreds of new school music programs each year. We know from 25 years of experience across thousands of schools that music helps young people feel better and do better in school and in life!