 Good morning everyone and welcome to this press conference from the 48th annual meeting here in Davos it's the third day of the meeting a lot has happened already this week and We're we're adding to this exciting agenda with a wonderful announcement today here So welcome to you here in the room and welcome to our audience on the live stream Whether you're watching on the website Facebook or Periscope. Thank you for tuning in this press conferences Dedicated to the launch of a exciting new partnership to deliver last mile health care It is a wonderful panel. I'm Presenting to you now to my immediate left. We're joined by Katherine Milligan. She's the head of the Schwab Foundation for social entrepreneurship Which operates under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum? Next to her we're joined by Raj Panjabi the chief executive officer of last mile health and a Schwab social entrepreneur Right in the heart and center of our panel We are joined by Chuck slaughter who is the founder of living goods and also a member of our Social entrepreneur community and last but definitely not least. We're joined by Hubertus coops He is the head of UBS and society Here from Switzerland, of course. Thank you very much for for being here Without further ado and Raj, let me jump to you What is the exciting announcement you have to make today? Please share with us. Well, thank you. Geog We are proud to be part of this extraordinary partnership and part of the inspiring community of Schwab Foundation social entrepreneurs Today we know that illness is universal and access to care is not Last month in fact the World Bank and the World Health Organization released a report that revealed that the world over half of the world's population 3.67 billion people lack access to essential health services like prenatal care Vaccines and treatment for malaria and what's worse is the world lacks access to the health workers lacks the health workers needed to close this gap In fact, we are experiencing the greatest health workers shortage in history Today we lack more than seven million health workers. That's a number that is forecast To more than double to an 18 million health worker shortage by 2030 Now we believe that the power of mobile technology makes it possible Makes it possible for us to transform this problem virtually every other sector from retail to banking To taxis has been reinvented by mobile technology now. We believe it's time for technology To help reinvent access to health care for the poor So we are empowering community health workers with mobile technology We're helping them to save more lives in partnership with governments and visionary funders like UBS We are deploying thousands of community health workers with simple but powerful digital tools To deliver quality health care door-to-door These women are delivering professional care for their neighbors Far faster and at far lower cost than ever before our smart health app automates diagnoses for of the deadliest conditions Helping ensure that we can capture accurate real-time data to help manage thousands of far-flung health workers and The Community Health Academy will provide a powerful new digital education solution that brings training into the palm of community health workers hands We've been at this Raj and I for for ten years and we've proven the impact of this digital-enabled health worker model number one and most importantly at save lives a Randomized control trial is showing that this model is reducing child mortality by over 25 percent Number two, it's incredibly cheap. We can deliver this comprehensive home care for as little as two dollars a year per person And third it's important. That's why we're here It's super scalable and just the last three years living goods has scaled up from one million to five million people served And in West Africa last mile health is training the next four thousand community health workers and four It can stop pandemics Raj and his team Literally risk their lives in the front lines of the Ebola crisis And they know all too well that capturing data on home health in real-time is the key to halting outbreaks before they become deadly pandemics and Last importantly, it's creating jobs and empowering women Deploying health workers saves lives. Yes, but it's also creating lively hoods for thousands of women Building their confidence building their financial security and their status in their communities Now what we're excited to announce is a dream team really a visionary Philanthropists including Richard Branson Jeff Skoll the Elma Foundation and Chris Hahn of the Children's Investment Fund foundation are Committing 50 million dollars in a challenge grant to kick off a shared campaign to deploy 50,000 of these Empowered community health workers to reach 34 million people over six countries Now to unlock this magic commitment Raj and I have to go find another 50 million dollars from new sources over the next four years But this is an exciting challenge because for new backers the offer offer offers the opportunity to double the impact of their investments Now on behalf of all those we serve We're really thrilled to be here with ups who is stepping up in a bold way to make the first major commitment To this campaign. It's a bit unusual. You know, we know typically in in the social sector It's it's not uncommon for philanthropy to be a bit siloed bureaucratic But this collaboration is showing it really doesn't have to be that way It shows how business and philanthropy can be both collaborative and nimble Humane and hard-nosed and it shows that when committed caring partners link arms that big change is really possible Thank you very much Chuck and also. Thank you Raj. Let me let me I guess begin really by it by framing one more time What this is really about this is about bringing health care to 34 million people who don't have it today That's a really significant number and that is exactly the type of thing that The clients of UBS want to have an impact on we as the world's leading wealth manager We think we have a role to play in helping things like this come to fruition and as a result of that actually We've been working with our clients for many many years Because we know from studies that we've done the last one actually just a few years ago that 90% of UBS's clients are Involved in philanthropy in some way shape or form But only 20% of them think it's being done effectively or they're doing it effectively What we're also seeing is that maybe a few years ago a client may have said I'm happy to build a health care center You know somewhere in Africa to make sure that a local community is served Or they'd say I'm happy to have a few wells dug to make sure that there's clean drinking water in a village today Their ambitions are much much bolder They want to make sure that they give smartly with a lot of impact and they don't want to solve The health care issue in a particular town or a particular city They would like to tackle the issue that one billion people don't have access to health care And so that's why we are pledging today and stepping up to say As Chuck just just outlined They have a 50 million commitment, but they need another 50 what we will be doing is we will be granting 10 million from UBS for Every one dollar that we give or sorry We'll turn around the other way for every two dollars that our clients give we will match that with one dollar Up to an amount of 10 million. So that means in total out of that we should get around 30 million That would contribute to this cause so 10 million from UBS another 20 million from our clients Should should help Raj and Chuck get started now For us, this is not something new and it's not something that we haven't Organized in in a similar fashion in the past the way that we will do this is through the UBS Optimus Foundation Which is a foundation that we've had form since 1999 Which currently has 180 projects globally? 150 million in grants under management and About three thousand of our of our high net worth and ultra high net worth clients give to the foundation every year last year we had grants up to 60 million which we then grant back out right away and interestingly and not coincidentally Both Raj and Chuck's organizations have been organizations that we've granted to For quite a few years. We actually worked very very closely with Raj in in his really when he was in his in his building up phase of last mile health and we're on the ground with him very very early in Liberia when when evil ahead and we've been also working with Chuck for quite some time in in Uganda So for us, this is this is a you know, this is a Process that we've been through in the past and that We're very very familiar with which is also why I'm quite confident that we will be able to get the match from our clients I think I'll leave it at that We are open for your questions if there are any here in the room. Thank you, Bernice First of all, I'd like to invite Catherine. I mentioned already that that Chuck and Raj are part of the of the Schwab Foundation of social entrepreneurs But let me ask you a simple question. Why is the World Economic Forum? Actually engaged in that area and what's the work the community is doing? Thank you So Klaus and Hilde Schwab of course Professor Klaus Schwab the executive chairman and founder of the World Economic Forum and his wife Hilde created the Schwab Foundation for social entrepreneurship 20 years ago today social entrepreneurship is a Widely understood term back then it really wasn't but they felt that There was a critical voice missing in Davos, although we had brought civil society leaders for decades even by that point and that's really these entrepreneurs these visionary leaders who were and are continue to leverage market forces and business principles to solve social problems as distinct from charity and That was you know sort of the origin of the of the idea and of the foundation of the community And so for now 20 years the Schwab Foundation has been selecting and engaging Outstanding social entrepreneurs bringing them together with each other for peer support for collaboration, but also critically with For partnership with other key stakeholders of the World Economic Forum So throughout this week, of course, you're meeting not only with philanthropic partners Others are meeting with business partners But critically there's the role that the public sector has to play as well and that might be health ministries in this case It might be other ministries education ministries in other cases But we are seeing more and more of this kind of large-scale population change What we would call system change that social entrepreneurs as the innovators are able to drive not in isolation but in partnership with other key stakeholders, so I just want to congratulate you both for your dedication and and your commitment and Really want to take this opportunity also to congratulate UBS for coming into this very exciting partnership Thank You Catherine and allow myself to get a question in first You mentioned women, right and we had a Chetna Zinna another of your Members of the community. She is also co-chair this year. She spoke about Working with women particularly and Mohammed Yunus is famously always saying I'm only giving money to women Can you can you elaborate a little bit on that aspect? Well, there's I mean I'd start with this. There's it's it's very well known that Interventions in health care and livelihoods when they're focused on the female head of household just Deliver far greater benefits to the family than where they're focused primarily on the male head of household And think again about the work that we're doing it's focused tremendously on children And on pregnant mothers and so that's really our customer so from just from a business and a behavior change point of view We're gonna get a lot farther and a lot faster if we use a woman as the agent of change And we're trying to change behaviors and mothers and children and to give an example of Chuck's points the There's a woman. I was just working with one of the community health workers in Liberia and her name's Musu Musu lives in a village that is About four hours away from the nearest clinic. She she was About 25% of Liberian women have a chance to finish primary school only 25% But Musu had been persistent. She'd finished high school by the age of 18 And when she came back to her community what she found were children in her village dying from conditions No one should die from in the 21st century malaria pneumonia now she was a Leader someone who wanted to take care of her community and the power of mobile technology the advances we've seen in the In the healthcare industry with point-of-care diagnostic test You can equip her with a $1 rapid test kit for malaria You can give her a backpack full of medicines that can treat those patients and you can provide as we are in this partnership a Smartphone for her to help her automate diagnosis so that she's treating and providing quality of care now with all of that someone like Musu Went from some being someone who cared about her community and wanting to do something about it to actually being able to do something about it and Importantly being able to have a chance to get a job, which is absolutely central right now In this fractured world is to be able to invest in human capital to invest in people and provide jobs So someone like Musu and now thousands and soon to be tens of thousands of workers like her women in these communities We'll have a chance to have careers as health workers. Thank you. Maybe maybe let me add one more thing I think that is has been stressed a lot at this web But I think it's it's important to repeat it here And that's also the point that you mentioned Chuck that the key here is really to have people work together and collaborate I mean the two of you run in a way very similar You know approaches, but didn't start together. You started independently of each other Raj is a Harvard educated doctor. You are a very successful entrepreneur Bringing you two together even from a from a you know point of having two experts that are very complimentary is a fantastic start Then you have a lot of experience in Uganda. You have the experience in Liberia You both worked with mobile technology, but you have had slightly different approaches and marrying that is what we find Attractive is that you know you get two experts who've proven that they can do it Slightly different approaches who now tweak and push each other to bring health care to 34 million people and that's what excites us and they yeah, I should point out that From a partnership point of view, there's a big fundamental partner who's not represented at this table right now And that's in both in West Africa and East Africa our government partners So this is this work is only possible when we do it in very close collaboration with the national governments counties districts And really this is not a NGO Centered activity this are partners coming together to support a net national community health systems And so from an operational point of view a policy point of view and a financing point of view This only works when you have government when you have civil society and business all coming together Thank you I'd like to invite you just for one minute to maybe elaborate on the point of technology Because especially our online audience might not be familiar how you actually do the work on the ground Maybe you can expand on the technology aspect a little bit So it's it's rather simple So we provide an Android phone to every one of these committee health workers and that phone has a simple app on it We call it smart health and the app allows them to do an automated diagnosis for three of the leading killer diseases in Africa Malaria Diarrhea pneumonia and it helps them register and triage pregnancies. It's a big part of the impact and when they finish that Diagnosis and registration the app will then give specific instructions to the parent and to the health worker about what medicine should be prescribed Whether the patient should be referred and but it doesn't stop there The app will if it's prescribed if you prescribe a medicine the app will send automated messages to the mother about When to each day to complete the course of treatment and if they're referred to a facility It sends messages to help them follow up, but the other the other very important piece Is it's not just a diagnostic and support tool for the health worker? It provides end-to-end performance management system for the health system So this is a big challenge. These women are working in very far-flung remote locations It's very hard to supervise them and now their managers the managers managers and even the funders behind this can see The performance of these health workers in real time and really on any device anywhere And so before digital that sort of performance management feedback was all done on paper It was fairly in Iraq inaccurate and it could take up to two months We're now getting that literally on a day-to-day basis The other aspect of this you know being a physician. I think you know as you heard Chuck say You know this is coming after ten years of building strong health systems So this isn't dropping smartphones and parachutes to try to Have community members save lives This is the best marriage between what is already a high touch activity, which is health care and high tech So many industries are worried about automation stealing jobs This is a place where automations creating jobs and in addition to the performance management Smart health app the community health Academy Will provide digital training solutions for these workers So doctors like me can now use smartphones around the world to keep up with the latest in Medical science to be able to provide the best care to my patients Well community health workers to date are living in rural communities like Musus where to get the next training The next skill she has to get in a canoe paddle up river four hours get to a health center to get care When she gets there she's being trained with flip charts and markers You know why shouldn't community health workers like Musu have the same access to quality education as I do and again there These smartphones are making it possible. We're partnering in this collaboration with digital campus Which has developed a open-source mobile application called apia mobile that is providing video and audio Instruction supplementing the instruction that these workers get from nurses on the hands of smartphones and we're starting this month with with a module on pneumonia to help Kills one out of one out of five deaths preventable deaths amongst children in these communities is due to pneumonia simple lung infection That can go wrong and get worse. We know the treatment, but sometimes community health workers have a hard time diagnosing it And so these the smartphone will actually put right video showing how kids With pneumonia look when they're breathing Difficultly so that community health workers like Musu can identify those workers more quickly and and sorry to tie this to a lot What's happened talk being talked about at the forum this week This is it this disruption is very similar to the disruptions you were seeing in so many other sectors And where mobile is coming in it's shifting power from institutions to individuals So the old model in healthcare was when you got sick you had to go out go trudge to a place Wait online and hope that your medicine was in stock the new model is more like what we consumers are expecting now from Media for mobile money. It's on demand and it comes to them So with this model they call us One of these health workers comes to them and they use the technology to do a diagnosis in their home And then provide the medicine on the spot and what does that get you from a health point of view? It means people are going to access care a lot faster So the health systems are going to be burdened with far less acute and complicated cases and fewer people are going to die because of it Yeah, and then maybe one final point on technology that's in you know really important from it from a donor from a philanthropic point of view is that Donors care about impact. They want to know what's been achieved and In the past that process is cumbersome really really difficult paper-based and you know eats a lot of resources With technology it's far far easier and far far better And so you can report back to the donors and say this is the impact that you actually had and you know We've talked a lot about impact at this web as well impact measurement is a really really key point in getting private money Into solving causes like this To drive that point home Much of course of the conversation this week here at Davos has focused on the fourth industrial revolution and I think they're You know there is a risk that it feels very abstract That it might exacerbate Tensions and the divide between haves and have nots But you know really what we're seeing here and the agenda that we at the schwa foundation want to continue to advance Throughout this year and beyond is really looking at how these emerging and disruptive Technologies can be applied in a low-income low resource type of setting. This is a brilliant example of that But there are so many examples of it that we as a community of social entrepreneurs have been exploring throughout the week Including you know, Nate natural language processing and machine learning to help disabled people communicate looking at Artificial intelligence to help refugees reconnect with their family members looking at Drones to be able to deliver critical medical supplies at lower cost So it's not just about being able to measure the impact is also about being able to do it more cost-effectively in difficult challenging places to work and So earlier this week for example, we brought the social entrepreneurs community together with technology pioneers and tech experts to even look At applications like blockchain and artificial artificial intelligence and what are the relevance for these types of models? So it's just it's super exciting to hear that this is the direction that you're going in And I think it's going to be absolutely fundamental for people looking to solve social challenges that they're incorporating Technology into the business models from the outset The forum all this week I question I often get is cheese. Can you bring that to the US to Europe? You know, I'd love to have my health care delivered to my door And I think this is it could potentially be one of these examples where you have a peripheral technology that starts in the African market Look at mobile money It's a light year ahead in East Africa from where it is in the Western markets We could be a pioneering a home health care model in in the developed markets, which will migrate back and the developing markets It'll migrate back to the developed markets. Thank you. Chuck mindful of the time I know we haven't gotten to questions from the floor If we could get the microphone here And if you could state your name and organization for the sake of our online audience, please Thanks. I'm Catherine Cheney and I'm a reporter for DevEx So I'm glad that Chuck brought up government partners earlier and I'm curious to hear from both Raj and Chuck I'm very cautious in stories about mobile technology to always make sure that Yes, technology is part of the solution, but we have to think about health systems and all these relevant players So I'd love to hear from your perspective What are some of the challenges you anticipate that you'll have to overcome to reach the kind of skill you want to reach? And sort of what beyond technology will be critical to the success of this beyond technology and funding And then I'd love to hear a little bit more From the philanthropic perspective. I thought it was really interesting that you said Seeing the impact is important to your clients What else about this particular? Mission is is exciting to your clients. I'd love to hear how your clients look at this opportunity among many things that they could Consider. Thank you Catherine. I'm happy to start Chuck. Please. Thank you Catherine for that question I think you're absolutely right, you know, so the the best this is tech enabled tech empowered, but it lies on the backbone of a strong Infrastructure and infrastructure here is a human infrastructure, right? It's a networks of people from their own villages caring for their own neighbors that are tied to the rest of the health care system So the first ingredient is partnership in Liberia We've been fortunate for the over the last decade to partner with the government of Liberia and a host of other non-profit actors like partners in health international rescue committee plan international Samaritan's Purse all of whom are working together under one government plan to Help the government of Liberia reach the last mile to reach the last million people who have no access to care because they live Too far from a doctor But they're extending the government's health care system if if a health if you know this is critical because if if a community health worker like musu for instance finds a Child with pneumonia who needs to be hospitalized. She's tied to a nurse who's tied to a clinic who's tied to a hospital Eventually and so I think that is one piece. So the second piece and I'll turn over to Chuck I think is a is long-term engagement, you know this We train these workers we hire them we equip them with not just a smartphone But the medical with medicines with diagnostics they're coached by nurses to be trained and supervised They're recruited in selective ways to ensure their performance is high and they're paid and that's one critical thing with community health workers is that you know Around the world there's a debate whether they should be paid or not And yet there is increasing gaps in in in our ability to provide jobs in the world It makes no sense to us from a health care perspective not to When you're short and going to be short 18 million health workers by 2030 doctors and nurses will be important to fill that void But not enough why not leverage? Community members themselves, but it's also makes so it makes sense practically to do that But it's also important for people to get paid for the work they do And I think one of the challenges in the health sector is that it's unclear with just as in other sectors when you have an informal Lower labor and lower skilled labor workforce. What the value of that workforce is well as Chuck said in his sites They're seeing child mortality being cut by at least 25% in our sites we're seeing access to Treatment for malaria pneumonia diarrhea increased by up to 60 percentage points Getting mothers into health care increased by up to it's up to 84 percent where it was only 55 percent In in in research studies So it makes sense that if we can put the data more clearly as Chuck said Into the hands of these ministries of health into health care systems decision-makers to show them how valuable According to the outcome these health workers achieve that they're better outcomes even at a lower cost if we can Expose really that these workers are being undervalued, but then find a way to professionalize them We can actually create value in in the health care workforce through through this So those are the pieces that I think are also important when in addition technology Chuck would you add anything? one word leadership, you know We have a choice, you know this this we've been given a great Resource here Significant amount of money. It's going to allow us to expand in a couple new countries and we have to decide where we're going to go And I think if you look at the most Valuable ingredient in this it's leadership and leadership that holds their systems accountable So when we look at where we want to deploy that money Local strong local leadership commitment to the health sector. I think it's going to be our top criteria top priority Thank you very much since we're out of time can I can I still give the answer to why our Why our clients would be interested in this for reasons I tried a very hard to find three, but it's actually four so one It's tried and tested. Okay. This is these guys have been successful in the past And that's a very very important point second its scale Okay, we are not talking about two thousand people that we're addressing in a in a village with a health care center It's 34 million people Third and I think this is really important to understand for every $2 that our clients give they activate an additional four one from us and three from that community of Extraordinary philanthropists who have started this challenge with with these two gentlemen and last but not least Through the Optimus Foundation they get reporting and controlling So they get numbers and they also are ensured that what's being done is being done in the right way One thing maybe that I would add to the point that you guys just mentioned The other thing that we can bring to the table and that we do bring to the table on occasion in Ventures like this is that through the institution UBS we can help, you know Organizations like this to actually talk with governments to open doors and to bring another, you know voice the table in terms of pushing for change Thank you very much Chuck rush you have about 1500 business leaders to hunt over the next two days to follow the good example of UBS And about 300 government ministers to talk to so we won't keep you any longer. Thank you very much for your wonderful work Thank you to be UBS for supporting this work and thank you for being here today on this panel. Thank you very much