Industry Health Care Founded 2008 Type Nonprofit organization | Website www.embraceglobal.org Headquarters San Francisco | |
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Key people Jane Chen (Co-Founder)
Linus Liang (Co-Founder)
Rahul Panicker (Co-Founder)
Naganand Murty (Co-Founder)
Razmig Hovaghimian (Co-Founder) Similar East Meets West, Acumen, GlobalGiving | ||
Embrace is a non profit organization providing low-cost incubators to prevent neonatal deaths in rural areas in developing countries. The organization was developed in 2008 during the multidisciplinary Entrepreneurial Design For Extreme Affordability course at Stanford University by group members Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Rahul Panicker, Razmig Hovaghimian, and Naganand Murty.
In 2015 Embrace became part of Thrive Networks (also called East Meets West) which is a non-governmental organization founded in 1988 by Le Ly Hayslip. Thrive Networks focuses on areas such as health, water, sanitation, and education in various countries throughout the world.
Incubator
The Embrace infant warmer is a low-cost solution that maintains premature and low-birth-weight babies’ body temperature. The infant warmer is portable, safe, reusable, and requires only intermittent access to electricity. Each baby warmer is priced at approximately $25. The Embrace development team won the fellowship at the Echoing Green competition in 2008 for this concept. Embrace also won the 2007-2008 Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students Social E-Challenge competition grand prize. At a ceremony at BAFTA in London on December 3rd 2013 Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Naganand Murty and Rahul Panicker won an innovation award from the Economist. Embrace also partners with UniversalGiving to raise fund for its project, which is to provide the Embrace infant warmers in Kabul, Afghanistan.