Quingan Zhou's Response to Essay #1 for the 2013 StartingBloc Los Angeles Institute Application

1. StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation
Los Angeles, 2013
Application
Essay #1

2. A Global Health Crisis:
Vaccines
26 million
children don’t receive
= the vaccinations that
they need each year *
2.4 million
children die from preventable diseases each year
despite the availability of effective vaccines *
= 1 million *Sources: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

3. Quing’s Goal:
Digital Solutions for Cost-Effective Vaccines
I want to use digital
innovation to store
and deliver existing
vaccines to target
populations as well
as accelerate the
development of new
vaccines.
But how? StartingBloc can help.

4. Quing’s Motivation:
Reduce Suffering & Improve Lives
Millions suffer and die from polio, measles, diarrheal disease,
pneumococcal disease, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and other vaccine-
preventable diseases. Life-saving vaccines already exist, and
I want to deliver them to people who need them.
But how? StartingBloc can help.

5. StartingBloc #1 Asset:
People from Diverse Fields (PDFs)
Techies
International Other Getting
Development PDFs Real
Gurus World
Quing
Solutions
Medical
in One
Consultants
Professionals Room
Social
Entrepreneurs

6. Quing can LEARN from PDFs*
Paul, what made
your Rebecca, what
crowdfunding is your greatest
Gabrielle, h
campaign challenge as a
ow did you
successful? pediatrician?
connect
with that
local
contact in
Kenya? Mohamed, tell me
Bashir, what is the about the medical
hottest technology landscape in India –
in the mobile health I have never been
industry? there!
Quing
*PDFs = People from Diverse Fields

7. PDFs can help Quing CLARIFY
the problem and solutions
Quing, have you ever
Quing, what exactly considered….?
do you mean by
health innovation?
Quing, how can Consultants
an MBA help
you progress in Quing, why
this project? would you want
Medical to focus your
Professionals efforts in Sub-
Saharan Africa International
Other and not India?
Development
PDFs Gurus

8. PDFs can CONNECT Quing with
the right networks
A community organizer in India
A mobile app developer at
Stanford
StartingBloc
Quing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Community
A like-minded individual who
want to tackle the global
StartingBloc Fellows! health crisis of vaccination
Could you please
connect me with…
Others?

9. Because my StartingBloc Fellowship
Class can help me:
0 LEARN about various fields that might work together
0 CLARIFY my strategic plan to address the global
health crisis of vaccines
0 CONNECT me with individuals who can guide me in
my goals
I will be able to contribute
to the following future:

10. A Global Health Crisis:
Vaccines
26 million
= children who DO
receive the vaccinations
they need each year
2.4 million
deaths PREVENTED each year