A Visionary Healthcare Innovator: Dr. Mohamed Aburawi on Tech, Healthcare, and Impact Investing
What does it mean to innovate when lives depend on it?In this episode of The Solve Effect, host Hala Hanna sits down with Dr. Mohamed Aburawi, a Harvard-trained surgeon and founder of Speetar, a cloud-based telehealth platform born in the midst of Libya’s civil war that went on to serve millions across five countries. Today, through Atarona Ventures, Mohamed is scaling that impact across health, education, finance, and climate.From ironing his white coat on his first night in the U.S. to building hospitals in the cloud, Mohamed shares how scarcity shaped his vision for resilient, community-driven solutions. Together, Hala and Mohamed explore:Why the “adversity advantage” can produce more durable innovations than abundanceHow trust—not just technology—determines whether solutions scaleThe untapped power of diaspora capital and participatory investingWhy invisible data may hold the key to more equitable AIMohamed’s story proves that the future of innovation will be built not only in centers of abundance, but also in growth markets where failure is not an option.- - - - Full episode transcript: https://solve.mit.edu/articles/a-visionary-healthcare-innovator-dr-mohamed-aburawi-on-tech-healthcare-and-impact-investing Join our CrowdSolve mailing list for more social impact news: https://solve.mit.edu/newsletters Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. Email us at
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