# Edith Elliott

> Edith Elliott is the co-founder and co-CEO of Noora Health, a global nonprofit that turns hospital waiting rooms into classrooms and trains family members to care for their loved ones after discharge. What started as a Stanford design class project at a Bangalore hospital in 2012 has grown into an organization that has trained more than a million family caregivers across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia. A TED speaker, Audacious Project winner and Skoll awardee, Elliott has built her career at the intersection of research, policy and design, betting that the most overlooked resource in any health system is the people already sitting at the bedside.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Noora Health
- **Organizations:** Noora Health, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Ariadne Labs (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Population Services International, Aspen Institute
- **From:** Colorado, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MA, International Policy Studies (global health focus), Stanford University, Design Fellow; Design for Extreme Affordability, Stanford d.school / GSB
- **Known for:** Co-founded Noora Health, scaling family-caregiver training across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia, Trained over one million family caregivers in roughly six years, 2022 TED speaker (with Shahed Alam): 'The most powerful untapped resource in health care'

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Meets Shahed Alam at Stanford; their Design for Extreme Affordability course sends them to India
- **2012** — Builds the early Care Companion Program at Narayana Health in Bangalore
- **2014** — Co-founds and launches Noora Health, named after a mother they met
- **2020** — Noora Health surpasses one million family caregivers trained
- **2022** — Speaks at TED2022 and wins The Audacious Project; Skoll awardee

## Achievements

- Co-founded Noora Health, scaling family-caregiver training across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia
- Trained over one million family caregivers in roughly six years
- 2022 TED speaker (with Shahed Alam): 'The most powerful untapped resource in health care'
- Winner of The Audacious Project (TED)
- Skoll Foundation awardee
- Ashoka Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow
- Associate faculty at Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

## Latest updates

- **2022-04** — Spoke at TED2022 in Vancouver and won The Audacious Project.

## Links

- Website: https://noorahealth.org
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edith-elliott-633b7a37/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NooraHealth
- YouTube: https://www.ted.com/talks/edith_elliott_and_shahed_alam_the_most_powerful_untapped_resource_in_health_care
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/noorahealth

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