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Embrace: A $25 Infant Incubator
Presenter: Ms. Jane Chen, CEO, Embrace

Embrace is a sustainable social enterprise that aims to save millions of babies worldwide through a $25 infant incubator that works without electricity. 20 million low-birth-weight and premature babies are born every year, primarily in developing countries. Many of these babies die or grow up severely ill because they are unable to regulate their body temperature. This problem could be prevented with an incubator. However, traditional incubators in the U.S. cost up to $20,000. The Embrace Infant Warmer is an innovative device that uses a phase-change material in a sleeping bag design to regulate a baby's temperature. The product requires no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable, and is safe and intuitive to use. Our customers will be private and government hospitals, and NGOs who can take the product into community settings. We plan to prove the product and business concepts in India, where the largest need for this product exists, and then roll out in the rest of the developing world. One of the U.N. millennium development goals is the reduction of infant mortality by two-thirds by 2015. The Embrace incubator will help governments work towards this goal. By 2013, Embrace aims to save the lives of 137,000 babies and prevent illness in another 780,000 babies. This will lead to cost savings of $146 million for governments, and an increase in GDP of $1 billion due to improved health. In the long run, improved neonatal health will also lead to smaller family sizes and therefore reduce population growth.

Web Site: www.embraceglobal.org
Contact: janemarie.chen@gmail.com

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