Jessica Vernon

Jessica Vernon founded Maisha Meds while she was a medical student at Stanford School of Medicine. In its first two years of operations, Maisha Meds has grown to support over 1 million patient encounters yearly across over 350 pharmacies and clinics in East Africa, providing greater transparency into private sector healthcare, digitizing healthcare supply chains, and experimenting with digital financing and subsidies for medications for patients who are paying entire out-of-pocket for healthcare currently. She previously led the research team for IPA’s Dispensers for Safe Water program as it scaled to support nearly half a million people and developed a cervical cancer screening program for UCSF-FACES.  She has worked with McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice and supported the first year of a Venrock-backed US digital health company as it raised a $35 million Series A and launched insurance and provider partnerships. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in Economics.