A Doctor in Your Pocket: Health Hotlines in Developing Countries

Gautam Ivatury is a founder of Signal Point Partners, an investment and advisory company for mobile services in emerging markets, and a Strategic Advisor to CGAP, the global microfinance resource center housed at the World Bank. Between 2003 and 2008, Gautam led CGAP's work in microfinance and technology, including a flagship program co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jesse Moore is Director of the GSM Association's Development Fund, with a specific focus on mServices. Previously, Jesse worked with Vodafone on M-PESA, a mobile payment service targeting Kenya's un-banked population. From 2002 to 2006, he founded and directed CARE Enterprise Partners, the division of the large NGO CARE that provides venture capital to businesses in the developing world.

Alison Bloch is the mHealth Advisor at the GSM Association's Development Fund, where her focus is to accelerate the market for commercially and socially viable mobile health solutions. She recently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an MBA and a Masters in Public Health, with a concentration in technology. Alison has received a fellowship through the Blum Center for Developing Economies to work on health care based ICT initiatives in the developing world, and most recently worked on mHealth projects in East Africa and Haiti.