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 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology as a Pamplin Fellow at Lewis & Clark, and has since become a Compton Mentor Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. 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.
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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 B.S./M.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is a current medical student at Stanford University, and a public health student at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is a Bates Fellow, Rita F. Wyman Fellow, and a Peter J. Sharp Fellow. Nadim works to spearhead research partnerships, demonstrate the impact of our tools, and coordinate research internships through Medic Mobile.
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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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Alex Harsha
Field 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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Jia Chang
Field 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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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.
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Limbanazo Kapindula
Malawi Project Manager
Limbanazo has nearly a decade of experience in the IT field. Previously he worked for Management Sciences for Health, where he was IT lead for a partnership with Medic Mobile that supported Child Health, HIV & AIDS, Family Planning and Knowledge for Health applications. He has trained over 1500 people at all levels of the health care system (community, health centre, district and national level) in the use of FrontlinesSMS and FrontlineForms. He likes large jumbles of keys because he has always had an uncanny knack for guessing which key will fit into a given lock.
Board of Directors
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Ken Banks
Founder of FrontlineSMS and Kiwanja.net
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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
Chief Health Strategist at Google
Advisory Board
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Paul Biondich
Co-Founder of OpenMRS and Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics
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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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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
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Dieterich Lawson
Former CTO of Medic Mobile and LAUNCH:Health Innovator
