Nick Laing
100 million people in Africa live in healthcare "black holes" —places where you can't access any quality healthcare. Healthcare in these black holes is usually super expensive and logistically impossible.
The Idea
One Nurse, in One Room
Organization
Organization
OneDay Health
The Mission
Healthier people.
How It Works
One Day Health uses AI to map out whre the healthcare black holes are. Thne they set up simple clinics in one day and deploy trained nurses to staff them. The nurses use standardized instructions to treat 30+ conditions representing 95% of the disease burden. Regional managers ensure quality of care and financial health of clinics.
The Dream
Businesses or other governments everywhere create effective and affordable healthcare in healthcare black holes. The healthcare is so affordable that patients themselves can pay for it, with government providing limited subsidies where needed.
Why We Picked Nick
Originally from New Zealand, Nick is a trained doctor. He left medical school knowing he could make more impact where the need was greatest. Since then he’s spent over a decade in Uganda—getting around by bicycle, nerding out on cost-effectiveness research, and building healthcare solutions that work in some of the toughest contexts. Obsessively thrifty, his thesis for his masters at Cambridge focused on costs of different health models in Uganda. His belief that everyone deserves quality care drove him to start OneDay Health, where he and his team are aiming to serve 100K patients this year. This is one of simplest and cheapest solutions that looks like it works in places that have been too hard to serve.
