Born from lived experience.
Built from a decade of global health practice.
Infantis 28 began not in a boardroom, but in a hospital ward in Washington DC — and in a memory of a village clinic run in Kenya that was too far, too late.
Every year, 2.3 million babies die in their first 28 days—almost all of them in places where, the moment a mother and newborn leave a health facility, no one is watching.
I have spent over a decade working on the kinds of systems designed to close gaps like this—across international development, trade, and science and innovation, moving between research, teaching, and implementation, and working with institutions such as the United Nations, the African Union, and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the InterAcademy Partnership.
I have studied social innovation and entrepreneurial leadership, and the deeper question of why well-intentioned systems so often fail to reach the people who need them most. But I came to understand this particular gap in a different way—the way you only do when it becomes personal.
When my twins were born in Washington, DC, I found myself awake at 3 a.m., recording feeds, temperatures, and diaper counts in a notebook—exhausted, overwhelmed, and trying to answer doctors' questions correctly at every visit. Somewhere in those first weeks, I thought: there has to be a better way to do this.
And then my mind went elsewhere—to my mother in Kenya, to the home I grew up in, to the women I had met across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and to my younger brothers. I remembered a night in our village when one of them fell seriously ill—the clinic was far, and I was the one at home caring for him while my mother worked late at the market.
Then one night, our son William developed a high fever. Because we had a thermometer—because we had been tracking his temperature—we recognized it in time. The ER doctors told us we had arrived just in time. It still took hours to stabilize him.
I sat in that waiting room, unable to stop thinking about what that night would have looked like somewhere else—for someone without the tools, without any consistent system to help them know, day by day, whether what they were seeing was normal or dangerous.
That gap—between knowing and not knowing, between early action and delayed response—is not just a technical problem. It is a structural one, and ultimately a human one.
The people behind the system.
Infantis 28 brings together expertise in global health policy, healthcare analytics, digital health, inclusive innovation, and institutional partnerships across Africa.
We are building something that matters.
A mobile developer, a clinical advisor, field research interns in East and Southern Africa, and a grants intern. If you want to build with us — we want to hear from you.
We are building a system — not just an app.
Infantis 28 is a neonatal survival platform that works where neonatal survival is most uncertain, generates the evidence needed to prove what works, and creates the data layer that has never existed at the community level before.