大卫-格林 技术转让创新者

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David Green
Technology Transfer Innovator | Class of 2004
Pioneering the manufacture and delivery of health care technologies for the developing world.

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Title
Technology Transfer Innovator
Affiliation
Project Impact
Location
Berkeley, California
Age
48 at time of award
Area of Focus
Invention and Adaptive Technology
Published September 28, 2004
ABOUT DAVID'S WORK
David Green is a pioneer in the manufacture and distribution of advanced health care products for patients in the developing world who could not otherwise afford them. He organizes engineers, technical experts, distribution partners, and financiers to create production facilities capable of making high-quality products at very low cost. In India, Green established Aurolab to manufacture intraocular lenses (IOLs)—plastic implants used to restore sight to patients suffering from cataracts and other eye diseases. On a self-sustaining basis, Aurolab produces hundreds of thousands of lenses annually at a fraction of the costs in developed countries and distributes them in more than 85 countries. The company is now one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world. By expanding Aurolab’s manufacturing capacity to include low-cost needles and sutures, Green has opened opportunities to restore vision and treat other diseases for millions of people. Green is now developing digitally programmable, inexpensive hearing aids designed to become nonfunctional if any effort is made to resell them in markets other than the intended ones (i.e., those where widespread poverty makes such devices otherwise unobtainable). By applying traditional business strategies in untraditional markets, Green has addressed important public health challenges and improved the lives of populations around the world.

BIOGRAPHY
David Green received a B.A. (1978) and an M.P.H. (1982) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1983, Green began working with the Seva Foundation’s Sight Program at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, and participated in the establishment of Aurolab in 1992. In 2000, he founded Project Impact, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to develop, manufacture, and distribute affordable medical technologies to communities in India, Nepal, Tanzania, Egypt, Malawi, El Salvador, and Guatemala.



大卫-格林
技术转让创新者｜2004级
率先为发展中世界制造和提供医疗保健技术。

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标题
技术转让创新者
所属机构
项目影响
项目地点
加州伯克利
年龄
获奖时为48岁
重点领域
发明和适应性技术
发表于2004年9月28日
关于大卫的工作
大卫-格林是为发展中国家的病人制造和分销先进的医疗保健产品的先驱者，否则他们无法负担这些产品。他将工程师、技术专家、分销伙伴和金融家组织起来，创建能够以极低的成本制造高质量产品的生产设施。在印度，格林建立了Aurolab，生产眼内镜（IOLs）--用于恢复白内障和其他眼部疾病患者视力的塑料植入物。在自负盈亏的基础上，Aurolab每年生产数十万枚镜片，成本仅为发达国家的一小部分，并在85个国家销售。该公司现在是世界上最大的人工晶体制造商之一。通过扩大Aurolab公司的制造能力，包括低成本的针和缝合线，格林为恢复视力和治疗数百万人的其他疾病提供了机会。格林现在正在开发数字可编程的廉价助听器，如果在预定市场以外的地方（即那些普遍的贫困使得这种设备无法获得的地方）进行转售，这些助听器就会失去功能。通过在非传统市场中应用传统的商业策略，格林应对了重要的公共卫生挑战，改善了全世界人民的生活。

个人简历
大卫-格林在密歇根大学安阿伯分校获得文学学士学位（1978年）和公共卫生硕士（1982年）。1983年，格林开始在印度马杜赖的Aravind眼科医院与Seva基金会的光明计划合作，并在1992年参与了Aurolab的建立。2000年，他创立了Project Impact, Inc.，这是一个非营利组织，致力于开发、制造并向印度、尼泊尔、坦桑尼亚、埃及、马拉维、萨尔瓦多和危地马拉的社区分发负担得起的医疗技术。