Spring 2024 Cohort
Ceramic Water Filters & the Hidden Hunger
Founded by Cheldina Jean (Ph.D. ‘26)
The use of Ceramic water filters (CWFs) can effectively provide safe and clean drinking water, which also has the potential to be a viable delivery foundation for essential minerals. Over two billion people today still lack access to safe drinking water and suffer from “hidden hunger” – a term used for micronutrient malnutrition. Both a lack of access to clean water and nutrients lead to chronic health outcomes and impact economic advancement. CWF fortified with micronutrients can serve as a consumer-focused, easy-to-implement and cost-effective measure to improve nutrition and access to drinking water globally.
De-Stress
Founded by Arinze Agu (MPH ‘25)
Destress is a lifestyle app designed for “deadliners”—goal-driven students and professionals struggling with overwhelming stress and anxiety from looming deadlines. It combines personal productivity and mental health features to offer a holistic solution. With AI-driven recommendations, culturally sensitive wellness resources, task prioritization, and accountability features, Destress helps users manage workload pressure, their focus and energy effectively, enabling them to thrive without sacrificing their mental wellbeing.
Matcha Scrubs
Founded by MiChaela Barker (MBA/MPH ‘24)
Matcha Scrubs, where innovation meets inclusivity in healthcare attire, is a satin-lined scrub caps are designed to protect diverse hairstyles like braids, afros, locs, and more, and feature a surgical glasses holder, alleviating pressure on ears during long shifts.
MedCon (Medical Consumables)
Founded by Jeffrey Boateng (MPH ‘24
MedCon is a digital platform that aims to consolidate medical devices suppliers in African countries in order to better patient care outcomes. Currently, in Ghana, and similar African countries, due to the limited number of suppliers and lack of a centralized purchasing system hospitals and healthcare facilities face overpricing of medical goods, and are often unable to locate niche healthcare devices. This results in inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, increased costs for healthcare facilities, and potentially compromised patient care due to equipment shortages or delayed treatments.
Mudder AI
Founded by Nadia Ahmad (Ph.D. ‘25)
Mudder AI models flood risk down to the neighborhood and household level by combining satellite imagery, climate data, and on-the-ground sensor networks to forecast flood risk. are facing intensifying climate impacts, existing flood prediction models lack the granularity and accuracy to truly empower local climate resilience. We then work hand-in-hand with vulnerable communities to implement tailored resilience solutions, whether that's deploying flood barriers, creating emergency response plans, or relocating at-risk infrastructure.
Nurturing Community
Founded by Anjali Mangla (BS ‘24)
Nurturing Community is a community aimed to develop community-based digital interventions by combining multi-sectoral approaches to social determinants of health. Often, many community resources exist in an area but there is poor coordination among local actors to address the burden of chronic noncommunicable diseases among the most vulnerable community members. Our proposed solution utilizes health economic policy tools and local resources to analyze and implement tailored interventions to local contexts.
Organ
Founded by Sohi Patel (BS ‘27)
Organ is a health tech startup developing a modular, biorobotic wearable that autoregulates health by continuously measuring biomarkers, vitals, and lifestyle factors and reacting in real time, allowing for early detection and mitigation of issues like heart failure and hormonal imbalance before symptoms even show.
Pyari
Founded by Nikita Paudel and Ranjan Poudel (YC '25)
Pyari revolutionizes menstrual health management through four key areas: education, products, infrastructure, and advocacy. The venture runs arts-based workshops and awareness sessions to build empathy and open conversations around menstruation and provides educator training modules, menstrual health kits for children, and a menstrual tracking bracelet, with reusable products in development. They also perform menstrual health audits to assess and enhance facilities in schools, offices, and other spaces.
SciLink
Founded by Youssef Ibrahim (BS ‘25)
SciLink is an AI-driven, personalized research assistant tool that simplifies the literature review process and provides customized updates and insights in scientific research. Traditional literature review tools are time-consuming and lack personalization, leading researchers often struggling to stay up to date with developments in their fields.
SHED
Founded by Sooah Park (BA ‘27)
SHED is a subscription-based app that can be used by schools and individuals to teach core concepts, suggest culturally appropriate curricula, and offer a forum to ask and answer questions with youth of the same age. This was made to address the taboo and fear of judgment surrounding sexual topics, productive and comfortable conversations around sexual health are sorely lacking among youths. Additionally, schools often fail to balance progressive sex education with diverse cultural norms.
Spinertia
Founded by Braeden Cullen (BS ‘27)
Spinertia, a pioneer in wearable technology that utilizes AI to generate a live, detailed model of the human spine for athletic trainers to visually analyze spinal movements and facilitate easier implementation of corrective actions in sports medicine. This innovative device precisely measures spinal curvature and converts this data through a proprietary algorithm into a real-time, accurate visualization of spinal movement. Spinertia is a tool for injury prevention and performance enhancement, offering unparalleled insights into spinal dynamics for long-term athletic development.
Upkeep
Founded by Blake Robertson (MPH ’24)
Upkeep, a comprehensive resource database, empowered with conversational AI, was built to streamline support access for older adults and their family caregivers. 9 out of 10 adults want to age in their homes, which causes a tremendous burden for their family caregivers, especially given how fragmented and difficult it is to locate resources for support. This database will offer monthly plans where users will be given a personal care coordinator that will provide healthcare navigation, admin task assistance, and weekly check-ins.