doctHERs

Updated May 06, 2020

doctHERs

http://www.docthers.com

Asher Hasan

Leverage Technology to Connect Women & Improve Health (SDG 3), Promote Gender Equality (SDG 5), Provide dignified work (SDG 8), Reduce inequalities (SDG 10) and Coordinate sustainable partnerships for the SDG goals (SDG 17)

doctHERs reintegrates female healthcare providers (HCPs) who have been excluded from the workforce by using a digital health platform that connects remotely-located female doctors (who work from home) to health consumers in need via trusted intermediaries such as tablet-equipped nurse/midwife-assisted video-consultation (telemedicine). Lower-middle income frontline health workers (community he...

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Stage 5: Scaling

In 2020, doctHERs is further scaling its community health activation model in collaboration with Unilever, UKDFID, the Punjab government, Pfizer and Philips to impact 2 million women in rural villages across 19 districts of Punjab, Sind and KPK.

Registered in Pakistan

Focus Areas:

Entrepreneurship, Gender Equity, Digital Inclusion & Connectivity and 16 MoreSEE ALL

Implemented In:

Pakistan

1,050,000

Lives Impacted to Date

Country Implemented In

1,100,000

Customers

Employees

$4,500,000

Funds Raised to Date

Verified Funding

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Problem

The exclusion of women in the workforce in both developing countries and mature markets has resulted in not only a massive loss of human potential but also loss of human life - especially in countries (including the US) where millions of people continue to lack access to quality, affordable healthcare. In Pakistan, the good news is that 60% of medical school graduates are women. The bad news is that 3 out every 4 of these graduates are not participating in the workforce.

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Solution

We believe that the re-integration of women into the workforce (output) by leveraging technology (an input) will yield increased economic empowerment for women (outcome) which will ultimately lead to increased returns for both society and participating corporate/business partners (Impact).

Competitive Advantage

doctHERs is unique in that it uses a digital health platform to match the underutilized capacity of female doctors (who would otherwise be excluded from the workforce) to the unmet needs of health consumers in emerging markets. We recruit, capacitate, and equip frontline health-workers (nurses, etc) with laptops, tablets and smartphones. These trusted intermediaries are pivotal to our model as they help to engender trust with health consumers in a culture which prefers interpersonal human interaction (as opposed to virtual). By leveraging technology, we are able to expand access to quality healthcare to remote rural populations alike.

Planned Goals and Milestones

By 2030, doctHERs will impact over 200 million lives across 5 continents in partnership with iconic, multinational corporations while reintegrating 50,000 women into the workforce - enabling them to achieve their full socioeconomic potential.

	Funding Goal	2,500,000
	Projected Cumulative Lives Impacted	1,500,000
	New Implemented Countries	Bangladesh, United States, India
	New Feature	SMART AI-enabled telemedicine clinics

The Team Behind the Innovation

The doctHERs team is a multidisciplinary team of gender-inclusion transformers, design thinkers, doctors, nurses, MBAs, entrepreneurs and a really smart hedgehog (affectionately referred to as 'Spike').