SANA MAIN Open Sana Main configuration options TEXTBOOK EDX SANAMOBILE GITHUB MAIN NAVIGATION HOME ABOUT GET INVOVLED CONTACT BREADCRUMB Home About Sana ABOUT SANA Sana is a cross-disciplinary organization, including clinicians, engineers, policy, public health, and business experts along the entire healthcare value chain. Hosted at the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering & Science. Technology alone is not enough to transform global health and too often resources are indiscriminately thrown at problems without understanding what actually works. Furthermore, technology can't simply be transferred from developed countries to resource-limited settings, as solutions that work in one context, usually needs to be adapted to be sustainable in another locale. We leverage a multidisciplinary team of Harvard and MIT trained clinicians and engineers, working together with public health professionals and researchers on the ground, to adapt the latest technologies to build sustainable practical solutions to global health problems. While the origin of our name is somewhat arbitrary and not an acronym, "Sana" was chosen as it means "Healthy" or "Life" in several languages (including Esperanto, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, etc). OUR INITIATIVES TAG MESSAGE AS OF 2017, WE HAVE REACHED 400+ STUDENTS IN OUR LIVE COURSE, 600+ PARTICIPANTS AT OUR GLOBAL MHEALTH HACKATHONS, AND 4,000+ STUDENTS VIA OUR EDX MOOC. To maximize the potential impact of our work to improves lives, our initiatives are focused on knowledge sharing and discovery: to train the next generation of global health innovators. We promote the use of open source technologies and learning from each other's success and sometimes more importantly learning from each other's failures. Together, we can transform global health. 1.OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY Sana promotes open source technologies and licenses to promote rapid and widespread adoption, expanding global access to mobile technologies. Sana Mobile is a highly customizable end-to-end mobile telehealth platform that accelerates the development of mHealth solutions to greatly improve access to quality care. 2.CAPACITY BUILDING CURRICULUM Sana offers an extensive educational curriculum that builds local capacity for global health informatics, with the fundamental goal of nurturing homegrown innovation. In order to impact a massive audience, the platform supports rapid expansion leveraging Internet-based tools and a train the trainers model, building on partnerships with dozens of international collaborators on the ground. 3.MHEALTH PROJECTS Sana actively contributes to the development and implementation of mHealth projects around the world, applying our extensive knowledge in informatics and leveraging our global network of experts and collaborators. The projects range from clinical research studies to social ventures, with a common focus on quality improvement and sustainable scaling. Curriculum 7 Years MIT Press Textbook edX MOOC More Info Hackathons 10 Countries 600+ Participants 80+ Projects More Info Projects Haiti, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Philippines, Uganda, and more More Info SANA ABOUT PAGE ABOUT INITIATIVES APPROACH ALUMNI MEMBERS Aaron Kaufman Aaron Stupple D. Miguel Ángel Armengol de la Hoz Felipe Torres Fábregas Fred Kaggwa James W. Weis Jesse Rafa Katherine Morley Luk Hedrik Marian Wan Richard Kimera Robert Mugonza Rogers Mwavu Tom Pollard Usman Iqbal Wilfred Arubaku FELLOWS Alon Dagan Hok Hei Tam Juan Sebastián Osorio Valencia Maia Majumder Rodrigo Deliberato PARTNERS Andrea Beratarrechea Bandit Thinkhamrop Charles Otine David Alejandro Escárcega Centeno Denpong Soodphakdee Derek Rayside Diego Mauricio López Gutierrez George Dafoulis Juana Julieta Noguez Monroy Nawarat Wara-aswapati Pantelis Angelidis Shabbir Syed-Abdul Sylvia Wong Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li STUDENTS Collin Fair David Yuqing Su Giliam Francis Meeussen Jesse Rogers Jiazhou (George) Li Lucas Bulgarelli Luis Ruben Soenksen Matt Stobo Trevor Ophelders Uma Girkar Xi Jie LEADERSHIP Eric Winkler Kenneth Paik Leo Anthony Celi LECTURERS Jose Gomez-Marquez Katherine Albutt Peter Szolovits THE SANA APPROACH Our approach is to democratize access to quality healthcare through open source technologies, democratize knowledge through the exchange of learning across partners, and to democratize access to global networks of multidisciplinary experts. We believe that geniuses abound in our partner countries, and these geniuses are more likely to develop sustainable and scalable solutions, as they better understand the local problems and environment. COLLABORATION Assembling multidisciplinary teams (engineers, clinicians, public health, policy, and business) to foster a design thinking approach to building solutions. CO-CREATION Designing solutions together with local partners, to ensure that solutions are customized and effective for the local environments. CAPACITY BUILDING Training the next generation of informaticians and health innovators to promote a movement towards quality improvement and drive sustainable local innovation. SANA ALUMNI Aaron Truchil Abdullah Chahin Abdullah Mkanna Abeezer Tapia Aditi Chakravarty Alain Labrique Alexi Matousek Alvin Marcelo Ana Guerreiro Ana Nioradze Anders Häggman Andrea Ippolito Andreas Symeonidis Andrew Kanter Anna Giselle Ribiero Anshuman Das Antonio Moya Archit Bise Atipong Pathanasethpong Ben Nahill Beth Altringer Bill Phillbrick Biyeun Buczyk Boonchai Kijsanayotin Braiam Escobar Brandon Bennett Bruce Schneier Catherine Tucker Charles Safran Cheryl Edwards Chris Arriola Chris Moses Chris Seebregts Cicilia Maia Clayton Sims Connie Cheren Connor Cimowsky Corey Zue Damini Naidu Dan Myung Daniel Fijabi David Meyers David Scott Deborah Ancona Dickson Liu Disha Shah Eliott Cohen Elizabeth Bailey Emily Lyles Esteban Gershanik Fabiana Araujo Fasih Awan Gari Clifford Gilber Burnham Hamish Fraser Hari Iyer Ikaro Silva Jacqueline DePasse James Killeen Jeffrey Marshall Jessica Haberer Joan Dzenowagis Jocelyn Ling Joe Rowley Joel Selanikio John Blakeney Jonathan Jackson Jonathan Teich Joshua Kalpin Justin Miranda Kaisa Kontunen Katherine Kuan Kesiena Owho-Ovuakporie Kristian Olson Lauren Scanlon Leslie Berman Lisa Hirschhorn Luis Falcon Maria Garcia Romero Mark Loafman Mark Zhang Marzyeh Ghassemi Mataroria Lyndon Melek Somai Michael Morley Minh Nguyen Mohammad Ghassemi Mornin Feng Mosoka Fallah Neal Lesh Ned McCague Niyaz Jan Peggy Lai Poonam Dhavan Radhika Chigurupati Ramesh Raskar Raymond Sarmiento Richard Lu Richard Wamai RJ Ryan SANA'S MISSION Sana advances a unique multidisciplinary integrative approach to improving global health: leveraging technology to overcome resource limitations, focusing on analytics to drive evidence-based quality improvement, and an educational program for capacity building to promote locally sustained innovation. CONTACT MIT Sana Building E25-505 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 ACTIVITY YEAR 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 INITIATIVES Curricula Hackathons Projects Publications CONNECT WITH SANA