Zubaida Bai is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, headquartered in Washington, DC.
Bai is a social entrepreneur and women's health advocate with more than 18 years in the social impact space. She is the founder of ayzh®, a social enterprise that designs vital healthcare products to improve the health and happiness of women and girls across their reproductive lives. Prior to joining Grameen Foundation, she was the managing director of social ventures at CARE International.
Bai has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Maternal Health Champion by Ashoka, a TED Fellow/ Speaker, and named United Nations SDG 3 Pioneer by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). She is a Visiting Social Innovator with Harvard University’s Social Innovation Change Initiative (SICI) and a member of the Governing Body at SEMA (Shaping Equitable Market Access) for Reproductive Health.
She holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Colorado State University. She was also conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Claremont Graduate University in 2018 for her ability to work at the intersection of various sectors seamlessly, and to energetically bring her unique insights and fresh perspective to the table.
In 1983, Professor Muhammad Yunus launched Grameen Bank in the belief that microlending – very small loans offered to groups of low-income women – offered a pathway to lifting women from ...
我们进入了新冠肺炎大流行的第二年，世界上绝大多数地区都迫切需要获得能够让生活恢复至正常水平的疫苗。疫苗的快速开发可能是整个大流行中最激发信心的事情——疫苗的平均开发时间已经从5-10年缩短到不到1年。尽管开发时间短，但这些疫苗的功效很强，堪称科学奇迹。然而，国家内部的疫苗分发以及国家之间的疫苗分发，就远谈不上奇迹了。
As we move into a second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, an overwhelming part of the world desperately awaits access to vaccines that hold the power to return life to a version of normal. ...
As we move further into the COVID-19 pandemic it is becoming increasingly clear that many of the tools and measures deployed by high-income countries against the virus are most probably n...
As my husband and I sat on our porch on my 37th birthday, watching the sprinklers come on, I relived the last decade of our entrepreneurial journey to address the adversities faced by wom...
