Venture Strategies : about us

Venture Strategies is a unique nonprofit organization combining scientific evidence about tractable problems in health with opportunities inherent in the power of local market forces around the world. We are using business approaches to find ways to help large numbers of low income people.

Venture Strategies was launched in 2001 as a program of the United States affiliate of Population and Development International (PDI), linked closely with the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. In 2002, Venture Strategies for Health and Development achieved its current status as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity, incorporated in California.

In 2005, Venture Strategies was awarded the Global Philanthropy Forum Prize for social entrepreneurs with special recognition for our scalability, sustainability and strategies to launch initiatives that will endure long past our direct involvement.

In 2008, we created our partner organization, Venture Strategies Innovations (VSI) to expand the implementation of misoprostol availability in a number of countries in Africa and South Asia.

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The members of the professional board of Venture Strategies for Health and Development represent expertise and broad professional experience in the fields of medicine, epidemiology, medical demography, family planning, clinical research, economics, business, statistics, accounting, public health, health policy, pharmaceutical regulation, product distribution and professional philanthropy. The members of the boards collectively have had experience in either health service delivery or research in nearly all of the world's developing countries.