标题: 大卫-格林 技术转让创新者 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-15 00:55 标题: 大卫-格林 技术转让创新者 David Green
Technology Transfer Innovator | Class of 2004
Pioneering the manufacture and delivery of health care technologies for the developing world.
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Title
Technology Transfer Innovator
Affiliation
Project Impact
Location
Berkeley, California
Age
48 at time of award
Area of Focus
Invention and Adaptive Technology
Published September 28, 2004
ABOUT DAVID'S WORK
David Green is a pioneer in the manufacture and distribution of advanced health care products for patients in the developing world who could not otherwise afford them. He organizes engineers, technical experts, distribution partners, and financiers to create production facilities capable of making high-quality products at very low cost. In India, Green established Aurolab to manufacture intraocular lenses (IOLs)—plastic implants used to restore sight to patients suffering from cataracts and other eye diseases. On a self-sustaining basis, Aurolab produces hundreds of thousands of lenses annually at a fraction of the costs in developed countries and distributes them in more than 85 countries. The company is now one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world. By expanding Aurolab’s manufacturing capacity to include low-cost needles and sutures, Green has opened opportunities to restore vision and treat other diseases for millions of people. Green is now developing digitally programmable, inexpensive hearing aids designed to become nonfunctional if any effort is made to resell them in markets other than the intended ones (i.e., those where widespread poverty makes such devices otherwise unobtainable). By applying traditional business strategies in untraditional markets, Green has addressed important public health challenges and improved the lives of populations around the world.
BIOGRAPHY
David Green received a B.A. (1978) and an M.P.H. (1982) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1983, Green began working with the Seva Foundation’s Sight Program at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, and participated in the establishment of Aurolab in 1992. In 2000, he founded Project Impact, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to develop, manufacture, and distribute affordable medical technologies to communities in India, Nepal, Tanzania, Egypt, Malawi, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
