What We Do
Solving health and social problems with precision.
Surgo Ventures brings together all the tools available from behavioral science, data science, and artificial intelligence to unlock solutions that will improve and save lives.
The refreshed index brings greater precision to identify where and why women are vulnerable to poor outcomes. We’ve added new demographics and outcomes data, new functionality and updated the look.
We created a single tool that identifies vulnerable communities furthest behind in vaccine rollout and provides geographically precise insights into the barriers to higher coverage
As we argue in an essay for The New York Times, the US Treasury must begin measuring progress based on need.
When you know the reason for a person’s behavior, you can design effective ways to change it. See the five vaccine personas we have identified and the geographies where they live.
Surgo Ventures brings together all the tools available from behavioral science, data science, and artificial intelligence to unlock solutions that will improve and save lives.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine encourage the use of Surgo’s COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index in COVID-19 vaccine allocation to prioritize populations that are most disproportionately impacted.
The Kentucky Department of Public Health is integrating Surgo’s COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index into their internal data and mapping tools to provide local health departments with easy access to data to inform their decisions.
Southern Bancorp is using Surgo’s COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index to target business continuity grants and low interest loans to the highest-need populations across Arkansas and Mississippi.
The COVID-19 Crisis
Leveraging data to tackle the greatest health crisis in a generation.
The Fight Against Tuberculosis
Deploying a precision public health approach to tackle a global killer.
Promoting Maternal & Child Health
Saving and improving the lives of mothers and babies.
Supporting the Reproductive Health of Couples & Families
Leveraging artificial intelligence & behavioral science to promote health.
Direct to Consumer Digital Solutions
Empowering people with easy-to-use health tools.
Empowering Community Health Care Workers
Uncovering ways to help targeted healthcare workers better serve mothers and babies.
Surgo Ventures offers a portfolio of tools that can help governments, policymakers, businesses, nonprofits, and social impact organizations solve the most daunting health and social challenges.
COVID-19 Tools
A suite of data tools to help decision makers plan for, prepare, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic with precision.
CUBES
Solving problems depends on changing human behavior. CUBES is a framework for understanding why people do things the way they do – and helping them change.
Causal AI
Unlike other types of AI that only predict outcomes, our Causal AI platform helps get to the heart of why a problem is occurring – so you can design and test interventions to fix it.
From Foundation to Ventures
Mala Gaonkar and Sema Sgaier co-founded Surgo Foundation in 2015, with the goal of bringing a customer-driven approach to global health. Surgo Foundation combined Mala’s decades of experience in philanthropy and private tech-sector investments with Sema’s extensive expertise in data, innovation, and running large-scale public health programs.
At Surgo Ventures, we bring together all the tools available from behavioral science, data science, and artificial intelligence to unlock solutions that improve and save lives.
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