infantis
Our mission
To develop accessible and responsible technologies that connect families, health workers and institutions, strengthening continuity, participation and informed health decision-making.
ABOUT INFANTIS
African-led. Globally connected. Built around people.
Infantis is a global health technology company developing connected tools for families, community health workers, health professionals and health systems.
WHY WE EXIST
Health should remain connected wherever it happens.
Health does not begin and end at the health facility. Families and communities observe change, manage daily health needs and make consequential decisions between formal visits.
Yet the information created through everyday life does not always reach community health workers, health professionals and institutions in a useful or timely form. This can leave families unsupported, health workers with an incomplete picture and programmes unable to see where continuity is breaking down.
Infantis exists to help close these gaps.
Our mission is to develop accessible, trustworthy and context-responsive technologies that help people participate more meaningfully in their health journeys and help health systems deliver more continuous, equitable and responsive services.
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND A SYSTEMS QUESTION
Born from lived experience. Built for a wider challenge.
Infantis began during the first weeks of caring for newborn twins in Washington, DC. Like many new parents, our founder found himself recording feeds, temperatures and changing patterns, then trying to remember details when speaking with health professionals.
The experience also brought back memories of growing up in Kenya, where reaching a health facility could require time, transport and resources that were not always available. Together, these experiences raised a wider question: how do families organise what they observe, understand what may require attention and communicate useful information when health services are not continuously present?
The answer required a connected approach that begins with families, supports community health workers and health professionals, and helps institutions understand what happens between formal health visits. Infantis28 became the first platform developed around that challenge.
WHAT GUIDES US
Technology should strengthen relationships, participation and health systems.
Our vision
A future in which people can carry useful health information across their lives, health workers can respond with a more complete understanding, and institutions can learn from what happens beyond the facility.
OUR ORIENTATION
Designed from African realities, with relevance across health systems.
Infantis is African-led and is developing its first institutional pathways across African health systems. This orientation shapes how we think about connectivity, language, affordability, shared devices, community health systems and the importance of designing with people rather than adapting assumptions from elsewhere.
African-led does not mean geographically limited. Our technologies are designed to be configurable across countries, languages, programmes and institutional settings. We begin with African priorities while building capabilities that can be adapted responsibly in other contexts.
HOW WE WORK
Social innovation requires more than building technology.
Begin with people and context
We start with the experiences, needs and capabilities of the people and institutions involved.
Design through participation
Families, community health workers, health professionals and programme partners help identify problems and shape appropriate responses.
Strengthen existing systems
We develop technology that can support established services, workflows and information systems rather than creating another disconnected structure.
Build responsibly
Safety, privacy, equity, appropriate data use and responsible artificial intelligence are considered throughout development and implementation.
Learn before scaling
We use engagement, testing, implementation and evaluation to understand what works, for whom and under what conditions.
Adapt without assuming sameness
Languages, workflows, content and programme configurations can be adapted while respecting differences between communities and health systems.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
How we build matters.
Human dignity
People should be treated as participants in health, not simply as users, patients or sources of data.
Agency
Families and communities should be able to organise, understand and communicate information that affects their lives.
Equity
Technology should respond to differences in access, language, literacy, geography, income and connectivity.
Trust
People and institutions should understand how information is used and what a technology can and cannot do.
Partnership
Sustainable innovation is built with communities, health workers, governments, researchers and implementation partners.
Accountability
We describe our capabilities and evidence honestly, examine unintended effects and improve when the evidence requires it.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEADERSHIP
Experience across health, technology, evidence and institutions.
Our team brings together experience in global health, healthcare analytics, digital health, human-centred design, implementation, governance, entrepreneurship and African health systems.
Moses O. Ogutu
Founder & CEO
Evangeline McDonald, MPH
Co-Founder & Head of Research
Wanjiru Mburu, PhD
Senior Advisor, Digital Health
Paul Ruhamya
Senior Advisor, PartnershipsORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY
A global platform with African roots.
Infantis is developed by Econalis Group LLC, doing business as Econalis Global, with collaboration and implementation pathways across Africa and internationally. Our work brings together product development, research, institutional partnerships and implementation. Deployment arrangements are established with the appropriate legal, ethical, data-governance and institutional safeguards for each setting.
Locations: Washington, DC · Kigali · Nairobi
BUILDING THROUGH PARTNERSHIP
Join us in building more connected health systems.
We work with health institutions, governments, community health programmes, researchers, implementing organisations, funders, investors and technology partners.
Contact: partners@infantis28.org