XCHANGE Strategic Partners
AdAstral is a team of scientists and investors who believe that solving global problems can bring extraordinary financial and social impact returns. Their collective expertise in leading organizations dedicated to creating advanced technologies, while partnering with some of the best foundations and institutes, continues to drive their ability to bring products, and companies to global markets.
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Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited (AMTZ)
Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited (AMTZ) is one of the world's largest medical technology manufacturing clusters with over 100 companies working on research, development and production of life saving medical devices. During the pandemic, AMTZ produced over 100 ventilators, 500 oxygen concentrators, and 1 million RT PCR kits every day. Many innovations from AMTZ such as mobile container hospitals, mobile RTPCR vehicles and mobile oxygen plants were sent even to the remotest parts of India. AMtZ is built in a record time of 342 days, it showcases modern India as a leader in medical technology at a global stage.
CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $2 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year.
Congolese Integration Network (CIN):
Congolese Integration Network is a renowned non-profit organization in South Seattle led by and for Congolese immigrants and refugees. By bringing communities together and advocating for their health and well-being, Congolese Integration Network facilitates the social, economic, cultural, and spiritual integration of Congolese immigrants and refugees into their homes in Washington State.
Desimone Consulting Group (DCG)
Desimone Consulting Group offers public affairs, government relations, and communication advocacy services in the Pacific Northwest and Washington, D.C. Their team members live in – or have deep personal and professional connections to – communities across Washington state and the Pacific Northwest. Desimone is dedicated to helping clients advance complex issues and projects and maintain and grow key relationships. They help their clients stand up new efforts, tell their story and build advocacy efforts that achieve key objectives and create organizational infrastructure for the long haul.
Emory University
Emory University, with its proximity to the U.S. CDC and many global health partners, headquartered in Atlanta, has a long history of impactful scholarship, research and scientific expertise, and valuable partnerships, aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of communities around the world. This is exemplified by the Emory Global Health Institute, which works at the intersection of education, research, and practice to achieve global health impact.
Foundation for Living, Wellness, and Health
The Foundation for Living, Wellness, and Health hopes to support new, innovative research and information products for the public. For example, the Foundation may endeavor to identify free and secure (encrypted) personal data storage methods to allow citizens, patients and/or their caregivers to obtain and retain their own medical record copies safely. A second example the Foundation may explore is potential use of social networking tools to enhance communication within communities of citizens who share common challenges or needs.
Global Clinical Engineer Alliance
The Global Clinical Engineering Alliance (GCEA) is the only international organization uniquely dedicated to the advancement of the clinical engineering profession for the benefits of improving healthcare outcomes.
Global Health Labs, Inc (GH Labs) innovates to reduce health disparities, especially in low- and middle-income countries. As a nonprofit corporation fully funded by Gates Ventures (the private office of Bill Gates), we partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other cross-sector leaders to develop health technology solutions for the people who need them most.
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Hitech Advisors
Hitech Advisors is a Seattle based, minority owned Talent Solutions and Services business. They provide embedded talent solutions to leading enterprise companies and emerging brands. Working in close collaboration with each client, Hitech Advisors deploys specialized, world–class expertise right inside their organization – tightly integrated with their own people and processes to deliver experiences and outcomes with maximum efficiency, impact and speed to market. Hitech Advisors innovative, agile approach has helped clients accelerate the performance of their technology, user experience, and digital marketing initiatives.
International Medical Corps
A preeminent first responder, International Medical Corps provides emergency relief to those struck by conflict, disaster and disease — no matter where they are, no matter what the conditions — working with them to recover, rebuild and gain the skills and tools required for self-reliance. After the emergency has passed and their disaster-relief effort has ended, International Medical Corps shifts from emergency medical response to long-term medical support and training. They provide resources and training to help local staff provide a range of services — including healthcare, food, water and sanitation support — to their communities.
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Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a top-tier, nonprofit research university, grounded in experiential learning. They integrate academic coursework with professional work, research, service, and global learning opportunities in 128 countries.
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Seattle Children's is united by a compelling mission to provide hope, care and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Consistently ranked one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals, Seattle Children's delivers superior patient care, advances new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research and serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation envisions a world where personalized medicine is available to all. Every person is unique with individual challenges to optimal health, from genetic predisposition to disease to socioeconomic barriers to care. Terasaki Institute strives to address those challenges to bridge the gap between sickness and wellness. It aims to tackle the biggest problems in health and is focused on solving problems in new ways, developing ‘personalized’ solutions, prototyping tangible solutions, and bringing our innovation to the real-world.
UW Department of Global Health
The Department of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, improves health for all through research, education, training, and service; to understand and address the causes of disease and health inequities at multiple levels; and to collaborate with partners to develop and sustain locally-led, quality health systems, programs and policies.
Washington State Department of Health
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) fights to defend the public’s health from threats in a rapidly evolving world. DOH’s programs and services, implemented in collaboration with local health departments and state, federal and private partners, touch the lives of all Washingtonians and visitors to the state 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. DOH provides comprehensive public health services and programs to the community through a workforce of approximately 2,000 public health professionals– all dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Washingtonians and the communities in which they live, learn, work, worship, and play. DOH will continue to evolve and transform public health activities, taking it to the next level through our cornerstone values of Equity, Innovation, and Engagement. Each year brings new diseases, new chronic disease risks, and more natural and man-made disasters. Public health works together and across the health ecosystem for a brighter tomorrow.