Venture Strategies for Health and Development

Mission

Venture Strategies applies scientific evidence identifying tractable problems in health, combining this with opportunities inherent in local market forces to help large numbers of low income people in developing countries. We use business approaches and focus on projects that will be sustainable on a large scale, and can continue in the future without further dependence on financial support. We work closely with the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Programs

We are working with medical leaders, government officials and pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world to find ways to make high quality, low cost, off-patent products available to low income people through market distribution systems.

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Tanzania

Prevent Nigerian Mothers from Dying in Childbirth

Teach Traditional Ethiopian Midwives to Save Lives

Personnel Overview

Amy Jadesimi, MD, MPH - Director of Nigerian Programs
Dr. Jadesimi is a Nigerian, Oxford-trained physician with an MBA from Stanford University. She has formed a new company, Kipling Consulting Limited, registered in Nigeria, to organize the drug regulatory and distribution procedures for affordable medicines to become available in Nigeria at affordable prices without relying on public subsidies.

Ndola Prata, MD, MSc - Director of Maternal Health Program
Dr Prata is an Angolan physician and medical demographer who has worked in many African countries. She has designed the protocols and directed technical assistance and training for the Venture Strategies clinical demonstration studies in Tanzania, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Egypt. She is also a lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Melodie Holden, MS, MPH - Vice President
An engineer and economist who led strategy projects as an IBM consultant for 7 years, Melodie worked extensively in Asia and Africa and is experienced in developing new businesses, budgeting and evaluation. She applies business approaches to improve health. She is responsible for VS’ drug regulatory and distribution programs and is academic faculty at UC Berkeley.

Personnel Statistics

Martha M. Campbell, Ph.D.,
President and founder
Founded in 2001
Employees: 20
Volunteers: 5

Financial Statistics

Budget (2008): $ 3,250,000
Budget (2007): $ 2,375,000
Maximum Budget: $ 3,250,000
Overhead: 15 %
Other funding sources: Brush Fdn; Conservation, Food, & Health Fdn; KfW; Morris S. Smith Fdn; Winrock International; the World Bank; and additional private foundations as well as individual donors
Religious Affiliation: None