A ladder for communities to build the future of public health.

Project Kilimanjaro builds systems that aim to empower communities, governments, and corporations to work together to achieve equitable healthcare.

Three years ago, students and faculty at the University of California San Diego came together to address healthcare inequity amongst both impoverished and overlooked communities around the world. Through our preliminary projects, we found that women’s health was under-researched and female-identifying individuals were significantly underserved particularly within LGBTQ, low-income, rural, and indigenous communities. More so, public health initiatives within regions like Tanzania and India lacked the important voice of the community members in their structure.

A team consisting of passionate software engineers, physicians, community health workers, and students in India, Tanzania, and the United States devised a pathway that allowed communities to create public health and education initiatives that focused on the areas of concern in Women’s Health that most affected their community. We called this our “Co-Design Methodology” that aims to build sustainable programs in public health.

Together, we plan to combine healthcare, education, and technology to implement our methodology in communities and give them the power to shape advancements in public health. Project Kilimanjaro collaborates with grassroots organizations, corporations, government entities to design, test, and scale our methodology to address women’s health concerns so that people can create accessible care models that best fit their community.