NOORA HEALTH | Edith Elliott & Shahed Alam, MD, MHS | Skoll Awardee 2022

Описание: Noora Health improves patient outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping families and loved ones with life-saving caregiving skills. Noora Health has trained nearly two million caregivers and patients across more than 200 hospitals and nearly 100 clinics in India and Bangladesh. Their intervention reduces cardiac surgery complications by 71 percent and newborn readmissions by 56 percent.

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Edith Elliott

Edith Elliott is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves patient outcomes and strengthens health systems through the power of family caregiving. Noora collaborates with hospitals and clinics in India and Bangladesh to equip patients’ loved ones with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to provide care at home confidently and effectively. Our work prevents newborn complications, reduces hospital readmissions, increases health-seeking behaviors, alleviates stress on health systems, and brings families and communities together.

Edith’s work is rooted in the belief that the best solutions in global health are often the simplest — and the most overlooked. She believes that everyone, everywhere, deserves the agency and human dignity associated with access to high quality healthcare, and that no one should suffer from a preventable condition. Having been a caregiver herself unexpectedly at a young age, she understands the universal feelings of confusion, anxiety, and distress that come with the work, and strives to infuse that level of empathy across Noora’s programs.

Shahed Alam, MD, MHS
Shahed Alam is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, a non-profit organization that unleashes the power of patients and their family members by training them with skills to improve clinical outcomes, provide care, and save lives. Noora’s programs have reached nearly two million family caregivers across hundreds of hospitals and clinics in India and Bangladesh and have been shown to prevent newborn complications, reduce hospital readmissions, and increase health-seeking behaviors.

As the son of immigrants to the U.S., Shahed saw firsthand the barriers his family and other minorities faced while navigating the health system. He saw the struggles and triumphs of his own mother, who cared for his grandmother through a devastating neurological condition. It wasn’t until medical school that he began to understand the power of informal caregivers; people like his mother who work tirelessly to care for the people they love because there’s nowhere else to turn. From his first conversation with patients and families in the U.S. and in India, he observed the powerful role families could play as a core part of healthcare delivery. These indelible experiences shaped Noora’s core values: to lead with empathy and always begin by listening.

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VIDEO CREDITS
Rajat Agarwal - Camera
Matthew Beighley - Editor/Co-Director
Gabriel Diamond - Director/Producer/Camera
Phil Collis, Ben Pine, James Pippin - Executive Producers