Rustam Nabiev
Ashoka Fellow since 2016   |   Sweden

Rustam Nabiev

www.shifo.org
Shifo’s MyChild solutions are designed with and for frontline workers, enabling them to easily track individual children and entire communities’ immunization records and preventive health needs over…
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This description of Rustam Nabiev's work was prepared when Rustam Nabiev was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2016.

Introduction

Shifo’s MyChild solutions are designed with and for frontline workers, enabling them to easily track individual children and entire communities’ immunization records and preventive health needs over time, which is currently used by over 600 health service delivery points across Afghanistan, UgandaRead more

The New Idea

Rustam Nabiev, an expert mobile tech engineer turned health specialist, is creating tools needed by nurses, families, policy- and decision makers in low-income countries to ensure that every child receives essential preventive health care. Rustam’s MyChild solutions are designed with and forRead more

The Problem

Today millions of children in low-income countries die or suffer from preventable diseases like polio, measles, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Every year about 7.5 million children under five years die from these diseases, 70% of them live in ten countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia. TheRead more

The Strategy

Rustam’s ultimate aim is for no child to die unnecessarily from preventable diseases. He founded Shifo with a mission to use the power of data and technology to drive improvements in health care delivery, accountability, and transparency. Shifo’s approach is to unite and create trustworthyRead more

The Person

Rustam was born in Tajikistan into a family of doctors. Just after the Soviet independence in 1992, the country was thrown into civil war. Rustam’s family was forced to leave their privileged life in the capital and seek refuge in the rural north of the country. The family subsisted onRead more

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