EP 41: Designing Solutions in Global Health | Daniel Burka

Design Lab with Bon Ku

Daniel Burka is a product manager and designer who focuses on solving complex global health problems in simple ways. He is the director of product and design at the not-for-profit Resolve to Save Lives, where he spends the majority of my time on the open source project, Simple.org. Simple is used by thousands of hospitals in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to manage over 950,000 patients with hypertension. In his prior life Daniel and his business partner Kevin Rose started an incubator company called Milk which we sold to Google a year later. He went on to become a design partner at Google Ventures for five years and worked with a huge variety of companies like Flatiron Health, Zipline, Farmers Business Network and Blue Bottle Coffee. In 2021, Daniel also started the open source Healthicons.org project to provide free icons to healthcare projects around the world. Bon and Daniel talk about reducing mortality in non-communicable diseases in India, the journey from Silicon Valley to Global Health and why everyone needs a design mindset.