Now in its 5th year, the award celebrates leaders combining profit and purpose to help achieve the United Nations Global Goals.

Check out the 100 outstanding individuals which include social entrepreneurs, CEOs, sustainability leaders and impact investors from 39 countries, all working to tackle the world’s most pressing issues: https://meaningful.business/mb100-2023/

We’re excited to share that with support from The Pfizer Foundation’s Global Health Innovations Grants program, we’re helping drive community-centred solutions to strengthen healthcare systems and address vaccine-preventable illness. 

reach52’s campaign in the rural communities of India and the Philippines aims to improve awareness, demand and uptake of the COVID-19 booster, through a mix of door-to-door community engagement, targeted social media campaigns and peer-to-peer information sharing. 

We envision to 

🔎 Understand the unique needs, challenges and perspectives of community members regarding COVID-19 vaccination 

👫 Foster community trust, enable personalised conversations, and address local concerns and vaccine hesitancy 

🗣 Share accurate and up-to-date information about COVID-19 infections and the benefits of vaccination 

Till date, we have trained 250+ Community Health Workers through this campaign, engaged 25k residents through door-to-door engagement and 53k residents through targeted social media campaigns. 

Check out the fellow grantees and learn more about the Pfizer program: https://bit.ly/3rq1pa4

Whether we suffer from high blood pressure or mental health issues, or know someone who has faced a cancer diagnosis or undergoing treatment for diabetes – NCDs (Non-communicable diseases) impact all of us… 

Yet global commitment and action to address the burden of NCDs is not on par with their impact on our everyday lives. 

reach52 is proud to contribute and be featured as a case study in this report that outlines four interconnected fronts that guide the innovative pharmaceutical industry’s action on NCDs: 

💉 Innovation: Investing in the discovery of new medicines and vaccines to prevent and fight disease 

🗣 Availability: Promoting policies that drive expanded access to care 

🙋🏽‍♀️: Empowerment of people living with NCDs: Ensuring the design and implementation of policy solutions are co-created with people living with NCDs 

🏥: Capacity building: Working with health systems and their funders to build capacity that can effectively prevent, diagnose, treat and manage life-long conditions. 

Read this important report and check out case studies of other organisations working tirelessly to build capacity, ensure access to care, and empower those living with NCDs. 

Helping to eliminate inequity in healthcare but tailoring solutions to communities and end users is key.

Many examples of decentralisation use digital solutions to bring healthcare directly into the hands of consumers. However internet access is not universal. reach52 tackles remote access issues by designing a platform that works offline, powered by a human component to encourage use and empower residents to manage their health conditions.

Why should we look into decentralising healthcare? Benefits include
⛑ Customised care to meet specific needs of communities
⛑ Agile response and rapid mobilisation
⛑ Cost-efficient and targeted engagements
⛑ Fewer inequities as we increase access to healthcare

In order for decentralised healthcare to be successful, it is essential that we design solutions customised to the needs of the end user.

Honoured to be part of the Steward Leadership 25, awarded to organisations that have shown steward leadership excellence. Stewardship Commons spotlights examples of creating economic value while integrating the needs of society, environment and future generations, inspiring a bigger ecosystem of better businesses incorporating social values and priorities into their core model.

Check them out for stories and content on ESG, sustainability, responsible investing, steward leadership and more.

We witnessed tremendous growth in reach52, improving health outcomes for residents living in our partner communities, and creating even greater value for our clients and funders. We implemented a total of 13 campaigns across 2500 communities and expanded to two new countries – South Africa and Myanmar. Read on for our milestones, highlights, impact and case studies in underserved emerging communities and hear from the humans of reach52: in-depth perspectives from a resident, Agent and a government doctor!


“The hardest part was everyone telling me it was impossible… the
biggest challenge was being thick-skinned and playing to win.” – Our CEO Edward Booty shares with Tatler Asia Group about his journey building and growing reach52.

Read the article here.

Delighted to be featured in The Star, one of the largest news publications in Kenya for our work with Bayer to close the nutrient gap in Kenya and South Africa.

👩🏽‍🏫 We train Community Health Volunteers (CHV) in rural communities to use the reach52 app and MUAC tape to log health data and assess nutritional status

🗣 A resident of Nyangoro village, Rangwe, summed up this process: “The CHV was knowledgeable on what he was doing. After the screening, he gave us advice on maintaining a balanced diet, types of locally available food that we should eat to avoid malnutrition, as well as the possible complications and diseases that may result from malnutrition.”

Read more about how we are creating long-term scalable impact in these communities.

Along with over 40 organisations, reach52 has signed the Zero Health Gaps Pledge – a commitment to advance health equity and eliminate disparities in health and well-being outcomes.

The difference in average life expectancy at birth between high and low income countries is glaring at 78 and 64 years respectively. At the most extreme, Japan and the Central African Republic have a difference in average life expectancy of over 30 years. Global climate and health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have heightened both the severity of these inequities and the potential consequences of inaction. The Zero Health Gaps Pledge is a pledge to take action today so we can reverse this reality tomorrow.

The gap in years of human potential lost can be reclaimed by transforming the way organisations work, including the private sector. Leaders across industries can help drive this change by placing health equity at the core of their decision making for strategy, operations, and investments

Join us and take the pledge: https://lnkd.in/eumWNFBX

We are proud to be featured in the new World Economic Forum
report for our work on targeted decentralisation in delivering healthcare services to underserved communities.

The Global Health & Healthcare Strategic Outlook reflects on key learnings from the past years and lays a vision for health and healthcare in 2035, formed of four main strategic pillars with equity as the foundation goal.
⛑ Equitable access and outcomes
⛑ Healthcare system transformation
⛑ Technology and innovation
⛑ Environmental sustainability

Using case studies from across the world, it identifies a range of levers available to public and private stakeholders to overcome existing barriers
🔎 Cross-industry collaboration
🔎 Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and big data
🔎 Global collaboration
🔎 Policy and advocacy
🔎 Public-private partnerships
🔎 Innovative funding models
🔎 Patient empowerment
🔎 Targeted/selective decentralisation

Have a quick read below! Head here for the full report 💡