We are a small, productive, collegial team of technology and global health innovators. We are a mix of software developers, project managers, designers, and researchers. Our team has grown rapidly in the last year and we’re still hiring.
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Josh Nesbit
Chief Executive Officer
Inspired by volunteer village health workers in rural Malawi, Josh is firmly committed to serving a global community. As an international health and bioethics student at Stanford, Josh’s qualitative research focused on Pediatric HIV. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, PopTech Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow, Strauss Scholar, and Haas Public Service Fellow. Josh’s role is to connect people, spearhead partnerships, and let the world know what Medic is all about.
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Isaac Holeman
Chief Strategist
Isaac draws on technology for practical tools, anthropology for insight, and Christianity for motivation. He studied Liberal Arts, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology as a Pamplin Fellow at Lewis & Clark, and has since become a Compton Mentor Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. He was named an mHealth innovator of the year in 2011 for developing SIM apps for health. He hails from Oregon and is currently based throughout East Africa. His role involves consulting and training health workers, product design research, and developing organizational strategies for medium and long term impact.
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Mainul Islam
Chief Operating Officer
Growing up in Bangladesh, Mainul learned that the lack of infrastructure prevented healthcare workers from effectively treating underserved populations. This disparity motivated him to apply his analytical and problem solving skills to improve healthcare services for vulnerable communities around the world. Mainul is passionate about guiding Medic into a leading role in the mHealth industry. Mainul spent five years in management consulting, where he worked with the leadership of Fortune 500 companies to solve strategic and organizational issues. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Super Stars Literacy, is a member of SIRUM’s leadership team, and is a mentor at Young Entrepreneurs at Haas School of Business.
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David Brown
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Brown works with Milan, Caolan, and others at Medic Mobile to build fantastic web applications. Having served for over ten years at two large academic medical centers in the United States, Dave has extensive experience writing software that empowers public health and research. Dave holds a degree in Computer Science from a small Quaker liberal arts college in the Midwest, where he experimented with writing in English, but quickly returned to writing in C. Dave is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has co-authored work in several peer-reviewed medical journals, and — confidentially — can’t seem to break his distance-running habit. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wonderful wife and two surly-but-adorable cats. As evidenced here, he’s not good with cameras — but seems to do fine with most other types of technology.
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Nadim Mahmud
Chief Research Officer
While working at a cholera clinic in Bangladesh, Nadim witnessed how profound lapses in healthcare communication routinely cost patients their lives. Since then, he has sought to explore the intersection between public health, medicine, and mobile technology. He graduated from Yale with a BS/MS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, from Columbia’s Mailman School of Health with an MPH in Biostatistics and Trial Design, and is a current medical student at Stanford University. He is a Bates Fellow, Rita F. Wyman Fellow, and a Peter J. Sharp Fellow. Nadim works to spearhead research partnerships, coordinate research fellowships, and design, fund, and execute innovative trials that demonstrate the impact of Medic’s tools.
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Dianna Kane
Senior Designer
As Medic’s Senior Designer, Dianna’s role is to befriend community health workers and leverage human-centered design to translate insights into practical tools. Dianna has over seven years’ experience in global health, and has written heath systems strengthening plans with the Clinton Foundation in Rwanda, consulted on maternal health and malaria control for HealthRight International in Kenya and Nepal, and launched a family strengthening initiative for vulnerable families in Cape Town. She served on the founding team of the grassroots organization CHOSA, co-created the mHealth platform Kumbu Health, and has a patent pending for a medical iPhone app. Prior to joining Medic, Dianna worked on a health and social equity initiative with the Alameda County Public Health Department in Oakland, CA. Dianna earned a BA in Urban Studies from Fordham University and an MPhil in HIV/AIDS & Society from the University of Cape Town.
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Marc Abbyad
Field Director
While living in rural Malawi Marc volunteered his IT skills at the local hospital, allowing him to connect with incredible people and see how his skills could be applied in a meaningful way to promote health care. Marc comes to Medic Mobile with a degree in software engineering and a Masters in bioresource engineering. He has experience developing firmware and wireless communication software for security cameras in taxis, as well as extensive experience with front and back end web development. He speaks French, English, and some Spanish, and always travels with a Frisbee. Marc enjoys problem solving and working in diverse settings, whether he is managing Medic Mobile projects in West Africa or helping out on the software development team.
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Priyanka Pathak
Regional Director – South Asia
As an undergraduate at UT Austin, Priyanka became interested in the impact of technology in the developing world after working with an orphanage in rural Panama, partnering with the Clinton Global Initiative, and spending time in Southeast Asia. She further developed this interest as a masters student at Columbia University, where she focused on applications communication technology in international development, primarily in health services. She brings to the team an interdisciplinary background in business & economics, information systems, computer science, international development, and informatics, and will be responsible for all of Medic’s projects in South Asia. Priyanka speaks five languages, has lived and worked in five countries and hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in a related field in the future.
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Alex Harsha
Project Manager
Alex is dedicated to improving access to quality health care for underserved communities globally, and thinks that leveraging mobile technology is an incredible way to do it! Over the past two years, Alex has piloted PatientView with the Mali Health Organizing Project and provided field support to several other West African projects. Now at Harvard Medical School, Alex is focused on developing partnerships with faculty and public health organizations working in Boston and around the world. She is excited to take on this role, and looking forward to the new opportunities her medical studies will bring!
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Milan Andric
Senior Web Developer
Milan is a web developer with over 10 years of experience and will focus on bringing Medic Mobile to the web. He joins us from Analyte Health, a startup working on patient care and building online clinics. Prior to that he was the lead developer on News21 and KDMC at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He also developed Repsheet and collaborated on WindyCitizen. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.A. pursuing an independent major delving into computer science, art and design. Described by many as an old soul, he bows to wisdom yet maintains enough fire to risk the odds.
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Frank Prößdorf
Senior Web Developer
Frank comes to Medic Mobile with Computer Science degree from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, and has been working as a freelance web developer since 2008. He enjoys programming in Ruby and Javascript, diving ever-deeper into the secrets of the web, and contributing to open source software projects. Besides his work, he enjoys sailing and playing tennis. Frank is currently based in Berlin.
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Jia Chang
Project Manager
Jia is a Stanford University medical student who graduated from UT Austin with a biology degree. As a member of the Medic Mobile team, she works on clinical research projects. Her prior research experiences include a project with the Emergency Management and Research Institute in India, which gave her the opportunity to do study design/implementation, create a research center with several ongoing projects, recruit and train personnel, and oversee research software design.
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Jessica Qu
Project Manager
Aspiring to a career in international health diplomacy, Jessica is passionate about the potential for technology and innovation to connect people and promote change in health care and community relations. She studied Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology as a Gates Millennium Scholar at Yale University, and has worked on various international relations and public health initiatives in India, the Dominican Republic, Mainland China and Tibet. Jessica leads Medic’s first U.S. initiative, focused on improving patient-centered care using mHealth technologies, with the vision of creating a suite of tools for chronic disease care at free and under-resourced clinics.
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Jonathan Mativo
Project Manager
Based in coastal Kenya, Jonathan has been a champion of ICTs for development with Plan International, as the founder ofICT4Development Kenya, and most recently with Medic Mobile. He has worked with several mobile platforms, trained hundreds of individuals to use communication technologies, and has particular experience applying FrontlineSMS for health and community development. Jonathan has a knack for demystifying technical jargon and facilitating engaging learning experiences for audiences with varying literacy, technical and educational backgrounds. He holds a masters degree in statistics and computer science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
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Jeanette Cox
Accountant
Jeannette is thrilled to work for a nonprofit focused on increasing access to healthcare. Her varied experience in accounting includes a position as a comptroller and most recently as manager of accounting operations for an Oakland-based non profit. Jeannette is responsible for ensuring Medic Mobile adheres to guidelines for non profit organizations. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Junior League of Oakland – East Bay (JLOEB), and has 10 years of leadership experience with JLOEB and Children’s Hospital Oakland.
Board of Directors
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Greg Ennis
Managing Director of Peninsula Ventures
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Isaac Holeman
Chief Strategist of Medic Mobile
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Josh Nesbit
Chief Executive Officer of Medic Mobile
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Roni Zeiger
CEO of Impatient Science & former Chief Health Strategist at Google
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Amy Norris
Chief Legal Counsel at Clif Bar & Company
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Susan Nesbitt
Independent Consultant & former Deputy Director of Craigslist Foundation
Advisory Board
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Ken Banks
Founder of FrontlineSMS and Kiwanja.net
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Paul Biondich
Co-Founder of OpenMRS and Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics
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Francesca Garrett
International Media Consultant
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Erik Hersman
Co-Founder of Ushahidi and iHub Nairobi, TED Senior Fellow
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Raina Kumra
Director of the Agency for Holistic Branding
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Dieterich Lawson
Former CTO of Medic Mobile and LAUNCH:Health Innovator
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Kevin Starr
Managing Director of the Mulago Foundation
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Bill Siemering
Founding Director at National Public Radio, Founder of Developing Radio Partners
