Measuring impact is at the core of D-Rev’s work. Not only does user feedback help us to iterate in the design process and continually improve our products for our users, but more than that impact is the heart of our mission – it justifies our work, publishing our impact data gets you, our supporters and [...]

Imagine a world where everyone, everywhere could have access to world-class innovation that could change – or save – lives, without the barriers of price or functionality. Those barriers are what almost always accompany medical technology, designed for high-income environments, when it arrives in most parts of the world. Until recently, ‘imagine’ was the key word in [...]

In honor of World Prematurity Day, here at D-Rev we are taking the opportunity to think about the issues that premature babies face around the world, what D-Rev is currently doing to help, and what we could all be doing to reduce the burden on these tiny (but resilient!) people. Each year, 12 million infants [...]

My colleague Dorothy Zhuomei and I have been in East Africa on a short-term assignment to better understand neonatal healthcare and delivery. We’ve learned a great deal and have had the good fortune of witnessing a transforming Africa. Let me start by describing for you the situation as we see it. There exists a wide [...]

April is World Autism Awareness Month.  On April 2nd, Niagara Falls, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, and The Great Buddha in Japan were among over 4,000 recognizable international landmarks to be lit blue in support of Autism Speaks and the UN’s World Autism Awareness Day. Researchers estimate that 70 million people worldwide land on the [...]

With fireworks lighted across East Asia, January 23 rung in the Year of the Dragon for many Asian communities. But perhaps less obvious, it also marked the culmination of the largest annual human migration on the planet. For the past few weeks, millions of people across China have been on the road, traveling by rail, [...]

D-Rev was one of 77 finalists for the Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange held in Washington D.C. from July 26th-28th. With partners at Stanford’s School of Medicine and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, we applied for a transition grant to support the accelerated scale up of Brilliance and Comet. Saving Lives at Birth was [...]

We are happy to announce that we have signed an unprecedented licensing agreement with Chennai, India-based Phoenix Medical Systems Private Ltd. for the manufacturing and distribution of Brilliance! This deal marks the first time that an American nonprofit will receive licensing fees and royalties for its technology from an Indian for-profit company in the healthcare [...]

We’re excited that Brilliance, our low-cost phototherapy device for treating newborn jaundice, will be featured in Global Giving’s Open Challenge for the next 3.5 weeks!  If we raise $4,000 from 50 unique donors by December 22, Brilliance and other D-Rev projects will become a permanent part of Global Giving’s listings. Here are 11 things you can [...]