John Sargent
Dr. John Sargent is a globally recognized innovator focused on developing 4th Industrial Revolution technologies to radically improve healthcare delivery and catalyse broader development sector outcomes.
John co-founded BroadReach Group in 2003 and currently serves on the Board of Managers. He is a popular speaker and thought leader on technology, innovation and health equity. He has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the Social Entrepreneurs of the Year in 2015, by Frost & Sullivan with the Visionary Leadership Award in Healthcare, and by Devex as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Leaders in Development.
Prior to co-founding BroadReach Group, John was a management consultant specializing in strategic and clinical operations projects for top academic and private US hospitals. His last position before founding BroadReach was Senior Director and National Practice Leader in Clinical Operations for the Advisory Board Company (ABCO), a leading US healthcare think-tank. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Association. John earned an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree from Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar and an MD from Harvard Medical School.
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The BroadReach Group
BroadReach is a patient-centred healthcare solutions company empowering local providers and global leaders inside governments, donor organizations, NGOs and commercial healthcare companies to efficiently deliver improved patient access, outcomes, and social well-being to under-served populations.
It does this through Vantage, its unique artificial intelligence powered enterprise analytics, decision-support and workflow management system, combined with proven strategic and operational know-how and on-the-ground staff to provide and implement actionable insights. BroadReach has used its approach to shape healthcare policies in Botswana, South Africa and at the international level, and assisted some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies in designing strategies and business plans to create commercial access models to provide healthcare to those at the base of the pyramid. BroadReach has also used this approach to conduct health systems improvement projects across 25 countries, covering a catchment population of over 1 billion people.
BroadReach has worked on developing some of Africa's most groundbreaking, innovative and successful healthcare programmes, including Africa's first national HIV treatment programme, which has already provided HIV treatment support for over 500,000 patients, as well as HIV care support for over 1 million patients.BroadReach Group is a global social enterprise on a mission is to harness health technology
and innovation to empower human action. We combine two decades of healthcare
expertise with world-class technology to improve health outcomes and equity for populations
worldwide. We see a world where access to good health enables people to flourish.
We partner with organizations running large-scale health programs - payers, providers,
employers, governments, and non-profits - where our AI-enabled population health
solutions offer the right time decision support and next best actions to dramatically increase program health outcomes.
Built on Microsoft’s technology suite, our Vantage population health platform helps healthcare
organizations deliver better health outcomes, use scarce resources more efficiently, save costs,
and run more sustainable health systems. Our technology powered solutions are the future of
work in healthcare, ensuring the right teams have the right information at the right time so that
they can take the right action to create impact. We deliver value through our tech-enabled,
data-aware implementation of large-scale health programs and campaigns.