Professor Muhammad Yunas
Professor Muhammad Yunas shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Price with Grameen Bank, an organization in Bangladesh, India which he founded and directs. The Grameen Bank provides microfinance programs that enable poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
Now Professor Yunas is announcing an independent collaboration of Grameen Health with Pfizer, GE HealthCare, and Mayo Clinic to create a sustainable Healthcare delivery model for the developing world. He is looking to help the 4 billion people in the world who make less than $3000 a year. Grameen Health currently has 38 Kalyan clinics.
Professor Yunas comments: “Improving health care access and quality worldwide is a huge and long-term project. We would liek to invite other partners and thought leaders to join in on the callaboration with Grameen Health, or to create their own social health care business models and share the results with us.” In April, 2009 Professor Yunas spoke at the World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C. to educate people on the activities of his organization.
