EP 41: Designing Solutions in Global Health | Daniel Burka

Daniel Burka is a product manager and designer who focuses on
solving complex global health problems in simple ways. He is the
director of product and design at the not-for-profit Resolve to
Save Lives, where he spends the majority of my time on the open
source project, Simple.org. Simple is used by thousands of
hospitals in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to manage over 950,000
patients with hypertension. In his prior life Daniel and his
business partner Kevin Rose started an incubator company called
Milk which we sold to Google a year later. He went on to become a
design partner at Google Ventures for five years and worked with a
huge variety of companies like Flatiron Health, Zipline, Farmers
Business Network and Blue Bottle Coffee. In 2021, Daniel also
started the open source Healthicons.org project to provide free
icons to healthcare projects around the world. Bon and Daniel talk
about reducing mortality in non-communicable diseases in India, the
journey from Silicon Valley to Global Health and why everyone needs
a design mindset.