Recently, Ashoka India selected WHP’s Founder and President, Gopi Gopalakrishnan to be one of its new class of twelve 2015 fellows. The fellowship is aimed at fostering the work of leading social entrepreneurs who present innovative solutions to social problems in India.
Read MoreLast week, World Health Partners (WHP) began training ten local entrepreneurs—six of them women—to use a special, mobile phone-enabled device developed by WHP to connect rural communities and doctors far away through a telemedicine-linked Sky network in Western Kenya. The entrepreneurs are being trained to use basic SIM card-powered cellphones to offer community members a way to share vital medical information with network doctors.
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