Oxford Student - DPhil Healthcare InnovationIndividual
Elina is an engineer passionate about disruptive innovation that redefines the boundaries of global health and development. Her work focuses on affordable health technologies, including novel diagnostics for childhood pneumonia and sustainable approaches to non-communicable disease management in low-resource settings. She is the co-founder of Mamaby - a social enterprise that uses profits from sales of social snacks to provide healthcare to people in slums. Elina has also worked for the Social Innovation in Health Initiative, the World Health Organisation as well as a number of philanthropic organisations such as Giving What We Can and Thare Machi Education. She holds an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and is currently a PhD candidate in Healthcare Innovation at the University of Oxford.