Speakers Jane Chen: Social entrepreneur
TED Fellow Jane Chen has spent years working on health issues in the developing world. She was program director of a nonprofit in China dealing with HIV/AIDS, and worked for the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania.
Why you should listen to her:
Jane Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace, a social enterprise that aims to help the millions of vulnerable babies born every year in developing countries through a low-cost infant warmer. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000, the Embrace infant warmer costs less than 1% of this price. The device requires no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable and is safe and intuitive to use.
Chen received her Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to her graduate studies, Jane was the Program Director of Chi Heng Foundation, a nonprofit organization that sponsors the education of children affected by AIDS in central China. She was also formerly a management consultant at Monitor Group.
In 2009, Chen was a TEDIndia Fellow.
"I have seen firsthand that mothers will do anything they can to save their babies. And yet 450 babies die every hour around the world. In villages where this toll is a reality, it is simply beyond a mother’s means to save her children."Jane Chen
Quotes by Jane Chen
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“This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don’t need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.”
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Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives
- 04:46 Posted: Jan 2010
Jane Chen on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDIndia 2009