Co-Founder and CEORedbird
Patrick Beattie is the CEO and co-founder of Redbird, a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to expanding healthcare in Ghana. Redbird enables community pharmacies to offer rapid diagnostic services supported by digital personal health record systems. In just over two years, Redbird has expanded to over 300 pharmacies and 35,000 registered patients. A 2014-2015 Skoll Scholar, Patrick has focused his career on using novel technology to address unmet needs in Global Health and Global Development. Patrick was a co-founder and the founding scientist of Diagnostics For All, a non-profit medical diagnostics company using paper-microfluidic technology to develop novel point-of-care diagnostics specifically designed for low-resource settings. Before co-founding Diagnostics For All, Patrick spent three years as a chemistry and mathematics teacher in The Gambia and Guinea, as a US Peace Corps volunteer.
He received a degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Oxford University. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Patrick resides in Accra, Ghana.