Connecting health care with patients in need As part of their President’s Innovation Prize project, seniors Aris Saxena and Yiwen Li hope to provide global access to health care with their company, Mobility. Aris Saxena (left) and Yiwen Li (right) won the 2021 President’s Innovation Prize.
Aris Saxena and Yiwen Li’s Mobility program is dedicated to providing patients across the globe access to health care in their homes. The company has created a software solution for health clinics in under-resourced areas to seamlessly coordinate at-home primary health deliveries.
Their proposal to address that need was selected for the 2021 President’s Innovation Prize, which includes an award of $100,000 and an additional $50,000 living stipend per team member.
In Peru, a race to vaccinate dogs as two epidemics collide A team of workers in Peru, led by Penn Medicine’s Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, led a two-month rabies vaccination campaign.
Last July, public health experts in Philadelphia debated with Peruvian government officials about how to address a growing epidemic in Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city. The scientists warned that without a vaccination campaign, disease would spread throughout the city of 1 million. But the country’s Ministry of Health officials worried that outdoor clinics could put health workers in danger and lead to mayhem in the streets fights would break out as the aggressive patients waited to receive their shots, they said.