Nexleaf’s ColdTrace Transport app helps health workers keep vaccines safe during distribution trips, and aggregated Transport data helps Ministries of Health plan more effectively. ColdTrace Transport is scaling up to all of Tanzania, thanks in large part to our human-centered design approach. Nexleaf Product Manager Jill Moraa shares her perspective on the value of engineers […]
EXCEPTIONAL EFFORTS IN THE EFFECTIVE USE OF DATA by Nelima Otipa, Senior Program Manager for Impact, Nexleaf Analytics Introduction In our line of work, it’s not uncommon to witness individuals facing significant challenges in their efforts to provide proper healthcare to the population. Within these challenges, we often discover remarkable stories of everyday events that […]
Nexleaf CTO and Co-Founder Martin Lukac moderated a thought-provoking panel on Data Rights in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Joined by virtual panelists from the Tanzania Ministry of Health and the Nexleaf Senior Program Manager for Impact, the discussion centered around the importance of data ownership and control for countries to ultimately benefit from the data […]
When Power Failure Meets Life-Saving Equipment Just how important is consistent electricity to healthcare? As medical equipment floods low- and middle-income countries, there is an urgent need to ensure those investments generate the intended health impacts. However, very little data exists to appropriately address a country’s context and barriers to equipment use, including reliable power […]
A New Era of Data Availability in Clean Cooking? How technology is changing the way we think about monitoring, reporting, and verification. It’s long been an open secret that improved cookstoves projects claiming emissions reductions and selling carbon offsets are most likely overestimating their impact. All clean cooking projects include some element of impact […]
The 10 district pilot of Trek in Tanzania continues, 68 vaccine distribution trips were monitored between June and July in the districts of Geita and Mwanza. After conducting the first analysis to examine the trips utilizing Trek, we can glean some initial findings. While the data is preliminary, it does give us early insight and […]
We’re thrilled to celebrate a recent success with our long-time partner, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, in safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines. Since receiving a shipment of over 880,000 Moderna vaccines in August, the Ministry of Health has worked closely with our team to use Nexleaf sensors to monitor the vaccines as they travel from the […]
Nithya Ramanathan and Martin Lukac founded Nexleaf Analytics in 2009 because they understood that emerging technologies had the potential to revolutionize objective data-gathering throughout the world. With the right tools to operationalize real-time information, governments, researchers, multinationals, and philanthropists would be able to design more agile, responsive, and successful solutions to global problems. One of […]
Sistema.bio and Nexleaf Analytics came together to pilot an innovative range of technology and data solutions and offer insights that can help guide other clean cooking initiatives. Sistema.bio is a social enterprise that manufactures and distributes high-quality, affordable biodigesters that enable farmers to convert waste into energy and fertilizer. Nexleaf is a non-profit technology firm […]
One of the most prominent lessons we’ve learned from more than a decade of cookstove monitoring is that cooking is complex. The factors that go into the seemingly simple question of how a household will prepare a meal range from fuel price, forest conditions, fuel distribution infrastructure, income fluctuations, cooking habits, cultural norms, culinary requirements, […]