Global Strategies

What Global Strategies does

Global Strategies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1998 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Albany/Petaluma, California), operating with a small staff of 1-10. The organization develops and deploys digital health technology and field-based healthcare programs targeting women and children in the most neglected regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with active programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria, and India. Its core asset is NoviGuide, a registered trademark and tablet-based clinical decision support application that guides frontline healthcare providers through neonatal and — increasingly — pediatric care protocols, including automated medication dosing, IV fluid calculation, and danger-sign-driven assessment. The NoviGuide Dashboard aggregates continuous structured clinical data from deployments to produce epidemiological insights at clinic, region, and country levels.

The product portfolio extends beyond software to include the Prevention Pack (pre-packaged post-rape medical kits delivered to survivors of gender-based violence), the Prenatal HIV Prevention Pack, the Neonatal CPAP Program (a 2025 partnership with Vayu Global Health deploying electricity-free respiratory equipment in eastern Congo), an HIV Care Site Mapping system using Carto cartography, and a Field Volunteer Program that places clinicians alongside local healthcare workers for shoulder-to-shoulder training. The organization funds these programs entirely through individual donations, foundation grants (notably BAND Foundation for the October 2025 epilepsy expansion), and government grants (notably Global Affairs Canada's six-year Tumaini Project with the University of Montreal and Panzi Foundation, announced March 2022). Strategic partners include Panzi Foundation, HEAL Africa Hospital, Seattle Children's Hospital, Makerere Lung Institute, and Mother Patern College of Health Sciences. As a nonprofit, Global Strategies does not sell products or services commercially; revenue mechanics are donation-dependent, with 72 active deployment sites across Uganda and DRC as of June 2025 and 500,000+ cumulative NoviGuide care pathways completed.

Name

Global Strategies

Legal name

Global Strategies

Website

https://globalstrategies.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Global Strategies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops and deploys the NoviGuide tablet-based clinical decision support platform, alongside Prevention Packs and volunteer training programs, to improve neonatal, pediatric, and HIV care for women and children in underserved regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health Solutions

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Health, Health Information Systems & Data Programs (BPADAIAJ), Disease-Specific Global Programs (HIV/TB/Malaria/NTDs) (HLAJAKAF), Care Management & Coordination Platforms (case/disease management workflows) (HLACAHAD)

Keywords

• Clinical decision support
• Neonatal care software
• Maternal child health
• HIV prevention programs
• Global health services

Headquarters

HQ city

Albany

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible donations from individuals supporting the organization's mission to improve healthcare for women and children in neglected areas.
2. Foundation and Government Grants: Funding from foundations and government entities such as Global Affairs Canada for specific programs like the Tumaini Project.
3. BAND Foundation Grant: Grant from BAND Foundation supporting work in advancing epilepsy care in under-resourced settings through NoviGuide expansion.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Global Strategies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops and deploys digital health technology and field programs to improve healthcare for women and children in resource-limited settings. Its core product is NoviGuide, a tablet-based clinical decision support software that guides frontline healthcare workers through neonatal and pediatric care protocols, calculates medication dosages, and generates epidemiological data. The organization also delivers the Prevention Pack (post-rape medical kits), HIV prevention and care services, field volunteer training, healthcare worker scholarships, and GPS-enabled data platforms for HIV care site mapping and inventory tracking.

Product overview

Global Strategies is a nonprofit healthcare organization that operates a portfolio of digital health products and programs focused on improving maternal and child health in underserved regions. The core product is NoviGuide, a tablet-based clinical decision support application for neonatal and pediatric care. This is complemented by Prevention Pack and Prenatal HIV Prevention Pack for gender-based violence and HIV response, a Neonatal CPAP Program in partnership with Vayu Global Health, a Field Volunteer Program, Community Scholarships for healthcare worker training, and data platforms for HIV care site mapping and real-time outcome tracking. NoviGuide serves as the unifying digital platform, collecting structured clinical data that powers the Dashboard for targeted care recommendations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NoviGuide: A tablet-based clinical decision support software application that helps doctors and nurses care for newborns. It transforms complex neonatal care protocols into an intuitive and streamlined interaction, helping clinicians accurately dose medications, intravenous fluids and nasogastric feedings.
• Prevention Pack

Products and services

• NoviGuide A tablet-based clinical decision support software application that guides doctors and nurses through time-sensitive newborn care, automatically calculates medication dosages, intravenous fluids, and nasogastric feedings, and generates epidemiological data for care improvements at clinic, region, or country levels. Designed for frontline healthcare providers in resource-limited settings.
• Prevention Pack A pre-packaged post-rape medical kit containing post-exposure prophylactic medications to prevent HIV infection, treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and emergency contraception. Delivered to survivors of gender-based violence in remote areas of South Kivu Province, DRC within the critical 72-hour window.
• Prenatal HIV Prevention Pack Comprehensive HIV prevention and care services including voluntary HIV testing, counseling, and antiretroviral medication provision to HIV-positive pregnant women to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Integrated with the pediatric HIV project under the organization's family care model.
• Field Volunteer Program A volunteer deployment program placing neonatal nurses, pediatric nurses, labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, and physicians in field assignments for shoulder-to-shoulder clinical training and mentorship of local healthcare workers in DRC, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria, and India.
• Community Scholarships Full scholarships for Liberians pursuing nursing and clinical degrees at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, addressing root causes of healthcare worker shortages following the Ebola epidemic. The program has sponsored 38 students since 2014.
• HIV Care Site Mapping System A GPS-enabled digital mapping system using Carto software that maps HIV care sites in Bukavu, DRC. Local Femme Plus teams collect GPS coordinates and site data via tablets, which is transmitted to Global Strategies in the USA and processed into an online map to help patients find nearby HIV support groups and care programs. Has mapped 43 sites since 2014.
• Data Tracking System A rapid daily digital survey and real-time data collection system integrated with clinical care, tracking outcomes including neonatal mortality and equipment status. When analyzed in aggregate, the data provides a near-real-time landscape of key metrics across facilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 500,000+ care pathways completed through NoviGuide
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered supporting, major and core.

• Bay Area Global Health AlliancesupportingGTM or Marketing Partner · 21 August 2025Network of more than 100 organizations in technology, life sciences, academia, and nonprofit sector collaborating to improve global health outcomes. Colin Boyle, a Global Strategies Board member, serves as Chair.
• Vayu Global HealthmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partnership for expanding access to neonatal CPAP therapy in eastern Congo. Vayu's innovative CPAP machines work without electricity or compressed air, making them ideal for low-resource, crisis-affected settings. Global Strategies joined the ongoing rollout across North Kivu.
• University of MontrealcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 March 2022Six-year partnership in the Tumaini Project (meaning 'Hope' in Swahili) funded by Global Affairs Canada to promote women's rights and fight sexual violence. The project supports Panzi Foundation's work combining grassroots community outreach with digital innovations for survivors of gender-based violence.
• Panzi FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Partnership with Dr. Denis Mukwege's Panzi Foundation to deliver post-rape care and HIV prevention services in eastern Congo. Since 2012, Global Strategies has partnered with Panzi Foundation to improve delivery of medical care for survivors of gender-based violence, including the Prevention Pack program providing life-saving medications within 72 hours of sexual violence.
• HEAL Africa HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partnership with HEAL Africa Hospital in Goma, DRC for neonatal care training, HIV prevention and care programs, and healthcare worker education. The partnership has enabled the development of neonatal services and integration of NoviGuide technology.
• Seattle Children's HospitalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Alrite Study, a groundbreaking pediatric study in Jinja, Uganda led by Dr. Laura Ellington, using a pediatric care application built on the NoviGuide platform to help clinicians care for children with common pediatric illnesses including cough, seizures, and severe malaria.
• Makerere Lung InstitutemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead collaborator on the Alrite Study in Uganda, working with Global Strategies and Seattle Children's Hospital. Led by Dr. Rebecca Nantanda, the institute provides local expertise for pediatric care research using NoviGuide technology.
• Nakakeeto FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Dr. Margaret Nakakeeto's Nakakeeto Foundation for neonatal care transformation in Uganda. Dr. Nakakeeto is a leading Ugandan neonatologist working to build national progress from local action in newborn care.
• University of California San Francisco (UCSF)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with UCSF researchers alongside University of Connecticut on publishing work about delivering post-rape care in DRC, including the British Medical Journal Global Health publication.
• University of ConnecticutmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on publishing work about delivering integrated care after sexual violence in DRC, in partnership with UCSF and Panzi Foundation.
• LogistimosupportingTechnology or IntegrationInventory management technology partner for the Prevention Pack program, enabling GPS-linked tracking of which clinics receive survivors and how many receive treatment daily, optimizing distribution of critical medicines.
• Femme PlusmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal Congolese organization in Bukavu mapping HIV care sites and providing support services. Team members equipped with tablets trained in GPS coordinates to visit care programs and complete digital questionnaires for the HIV care site mapping project.
• CartosupportingTechnology or IntegrationOnline cartography software used for designing HIV care site maps in Congo, integrated into the Femme Plus mapping project.
• Star of the Sea ClinicmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner clinic in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia where Global Strategies trained nurses to conduct home visits to mothers who had just given birth, providing care to over 2,000 mothers and babies.
• Mother Patern College of Health SciencesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership since 2014 to provide full scholarships for Liberians pursuing nursing and clinical degrees, addressing root causes of the Ebola epidemic by building a stronger, more resilient healthcare system. Has sponsored 38 students.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• PATH: Global health innovation nonprofit that develops and deploys technologies, vaccines, and digital health solutions for low- and middle-income countries. Comparable in technology-for-global-health orientation, though much larger and broader in disease-area coverage.
• BRAC: One of the largest global development NGOs, operating health, education, and microfinance programs across Africa and Asia. Comparable in scale of community health worker programs and low-income population focus, though vastly larger and broader in mission.
• Partners In Health: Large global health nonprofit delivering direct healthcare services in low-resource settings (Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi). Comparable in mission, partner-embedded service model, and focus on women and children's health, though substantially larger in scope and budget.
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): International medical humanitarian organization delivering emergency healthcare in conflict and crisis zones including DRC, Liberia, and Nigeria. Comparable in geographic footprint (DRC, Liberia, Nigeria) and women/child health focus, though vastly larger and focused on emergency response.
• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Global health organization operating in more than 35 countries to strengthen health systems and expand access to treatment. Comparable in working alongside governments to deploy digital and clinical innovations in low-resource settings; significantly larger and more diversified.

Direct peers

• Dimagi: Social enterprise and maker of CommCare, an open-source mobile data collection and decision-support platform widely used by frontline health workers in low-resource settings. Closest direct competitor to NoviGuide as tablet/mobile-based clinical decision support for community health workers.
• Medic: Nonprofit building an open-source digital health platform for community health workers, used across Africa and Asia. Directly comparable to NoviGuide in target users (frontline health workers in low-resource settings) and digital clinical workflow functionality.
• VillageReach: Nonprofit that strengthens health systems in low-resource settings through supply chain, logistics, and digital tools — closely aligned with Global Strategies' Prevention Pack supply chain innovation and data-driven health system strengthening approach in sub-Saharan Africa.

Emerging players

• Last Mile Health: Nonprofit focused on training and equipping community health workers in remote African settings (Liberia, Uganda, Sierra Leone). Overlapping geography (Liberia, Uganda) and shared emphasis on digital tools, training, and maternal/child health outcomes.
• Living Goods: Nonprofit that supports community health workers with digital tools and supplies across sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Uganda). Comparable in operating geography (Uganda overlap), community health worker enablement focus, and tech-enabled service delivery model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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