WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:10.680 My very first project was in global health. 2 00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:13.500 From that time I did a mix of work, primarily in healthcare 3 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:16.532 a little bit in consumer, and then increasingly 4 00:00:16.532 --> 00:00:20.190 starting back in 2006, I started doing work 5 00:00:20.190 --> 00:00:22.980 in the global public health space for the social sector. 6 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:25.170 And then increasingly did it more over time. 7 00:00:25.170 --> 00:00:28.320 And now I've had the opportunity to serve 8 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.110 the Gates Foundation and their grantees on over 50 9 00:00:31.110 --> 00:00:34.260 strategy projects over that time, over the last decade. 10 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:37.950 People regularly ask me, you know, why are you still 11 00:00:37.950 --> 00:00:39.960 at BCG and why don't you just go and work 12 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.810 for one of the big global health partners in the field? 13 00:00:42.810 --> 00:00:43.710 It's because I think 14 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:46.740 that I can have incredible impact, and we collectively 15 00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:49.890 as a firm have incredible impact in global health 16 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:52.050 that I wouldn't personally be able to have 17 00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:54.030 if I were working directly for one of the partners. 18 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:56.520 The first thing that I think we bring is really 19 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.760 strategic perspective, and there are a range 20 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:01.320 of perspectives that are needed 21 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.410 in order to make global health work well. 22 00:01:04.410 --> 00:01:06.210 In particular, many people in the space 23 00:01:06.210 --> 00:01:09.450 are deep practitioners, either in medicine 24 00:01:09.450 --> 00:01:13.290 or in science, and bring a deep and rich content expertise. 25 00:01:13.290 --> 00:01:16.050 One of the things that we can use to complement that 26 00:01:16.050 --> 00:01:18.750 is we can take their deep content expertise, 27 00:01:18.750 --> 00:01:21.120 which I and our teams don't typically have, 28 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.450 and help to take that and turn it into a really compelling 29 00:01:24.450 --> 00:01:25.980 and impactful strategy. 30 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:29.220 So the first thing we really bring is strategic perspective. 31 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:33.510 We also bring really deep expertise on specific topics 32 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:36.240 from our private sector work that we can then imply 33 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:37.860 in the public health space. 34 00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:40.980 And a case in point in this, on this is digital. 35 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:44.100 So digital is of course transforming the world overall 36 00:01:44.100 --> 00:01:46.290 and is going to have incredible impact 37 00:01:46.290 --> 00:01:47.640 when we think about global health. 38 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.330 The world is changing so rapidly and at the forefront 39 00:01:51.330 --> 00:01:54.510 of that change is typically the private sector. 40 00:01:54.510 --> 00:01:56.130 It's companies in Silicon Valley, 41 00:01:56.130 --> 00:01:58.290 it's big bio pharma players, et cetera. 42 00:01:58.290 --> 00:02:02.160 And so our work with those players gives us the opportunity 43 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:04.860 to have that expertise that we can then bring 44 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:07.260 into the public health space and help public health 45 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:11.250 organizations to understand how to harness the value 46 00:02:11.250 --> 00:02:13.050 of digital, to have incredible impact 47 00:02:13.050 --> 00:02:14.520 in public health as well. 48 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.450 There are three different trends that are coming together 49 00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:19.380 to make this possible. 50 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:23.040 The first is much more powerful and much cheaper hardware. 51 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:26.550 The second is the improvement in artificial intelligence 52 00:02:26.550 --> 00:02:29.310 and the ability to train machines to do things 53 00:02:29.310 --> 00:02:30.600 that humans used to do. 54 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:34.920 And then the third thing is much more ubiquitous access 55 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:35.970 to broadband. 56 00:02:35.970 --> 00:02:38.400 I think people don't think when they think of Africa 57 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.980 they don't think of increased access to broadband, 58 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:45.120 but by 2030, we expect that Kenya will have 97% access 59 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.500 to 4G technology. 60 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:50.100 These three things will come together to allow a community 61 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:54.180 health worker to have the power of the best 62 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:56.880 medical resident in the world, in the palm of their hand. 63 00:02:56.880 --> 00:02:58.800 And not only will a community health worker have 64 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.350 access to that, but actually individual patients 65 00:03:01.350 --> 00:03:03.300 will be able to seek care rather 66 00:03:03.300 --> 00:03:05.610 than going into a primary health center 67 00:03:05.610 --> 00:03:07.200 and traveling for hours to get there 68 00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:08.730 and then waiting in long lines. 69 00:03:08.730 --> 00:03:11.190 They'll have the ability to immediately seek care 70 00:03:11.190 --> 00:03:14.013 on their phone and get answers to their basic questions.