Drs. Jessica Beckerman + Ari Johnson

Ari Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Muso, an organization that saves lives by reaching patients fast through a community-based Rapid Care model. Millions of people living in poverty die every year from treatable diseases because they do not receive care in time. Muso deploys Community Health Workers (CHWs) to actively search for patients door-to-door, connecting them to life-saving services early with no out-of-pocket fees, and evacuating the sickest patients to redesigned community health centers. Research has documented that Rapid Care communities achieved a ten-fold increase in access to care and the largest, fastest reductions in child death on record. In 2024, Muso received the Kristof Holiday Impact Prize and was recommended as one of three top non-profits in The New York Times Giving Guide, an honor awarded annually to organizations driving lasting, positive change in the world.

Ari's research and global work focus on curing delay in healthcare. He trained at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco, where he now serves as an associate professor of medicine at the Institute for Global Health Sciences and treats patients at San Francisco General Hospital. A Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, Ari has conducted research at the National Institutes of Health, the International Health Institute, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, Brown University, Harvard University, and the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Jerusalem. His research areas include health systems design, symptom-to-treatment time, healthcare financing, barriers to timely care, and strategies for improving population-level morbidity and mortality through early access. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in infectious disease, health systems design, socioeconomic determinants of health, AIDS, and migration.

Jessica Beckerman is the Chief Medical Officer of Muso, leading quality, rapid healthcare delivery for more than half a million people through an organization she co-founded in 2005 while still an undergraduate at Brown University. Muso saves lives by reaching patients fast through a community-based Rapid Care model that deploys Community Health Workers (CHWs) to actively search for patients door-to-door, connecting them to life-saving services early with no out-of-pocket fees. The sickest patients are evacuated to redesigned community health centers. Research has documented that Rapid Care communities achieved a ten-fold increase in access to care and the largest, fastest reductions in child death on record. In 2024, Muso received the Kristof Holiday Impact Prize and was recommended as one of three top non-profits in The New York Times Giving Guide, an honor awarded annually to organizations driving lasting, positive change in the world.

Beckerman's model for proactive doorstep healthcare was inspired by her experiences as an HIV researcher in Mali, where she regularly saw children dying of HIV and other preventable or curable illnesses. After earning her BA in international development in 2006, she returned to Mali as a Fulbright Scholar in 2007 to continue building Muso's model and team. She then joined Partners in Health as a project manager, designing health systems for marginalized patients, before earning her medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco in 2014. Following her residency, she became an OBGYN in Oakland, California, but her primary focus has remained Muso, which has grown to include over 500 staff serving millions of patients and cutting child mortality rates ten-fold in Muso communities. Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2022.