We’re thrilled to celebrate a recent success with our long-time partner, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, in safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines. Since receiving a shipment of over 880,000 Moderna vaccines in August, the Ministry of Health has worked closely with our team to use Nexleaf sensors to monitor the vaccines as they travel from the national...

Nithya Ramanathan and Martin Lukac founded Nexleaf Analytics in 2009 because they understood that emerging technologies had the potential to revolutionize objective data-gathering throughout the world. With the right tools to operationalize real-time information, governments, researchers, multinationals, and philanthropists would be able to design ...

One of the most prominent lessons we’ve learned from more than a decade of cookstove monitoring is that cooking is complex. The factors that go into the seemingly simple question of how a household will prepare a meal range from fuel price, forest conditions, fuel distribution infrastructure, income fluctuations, cooking habits, cultural norms, cul...

Sistema.bio and Nexleaf Analytics came together to pilot an innovative range of technology and data solutions and offer insights that can help guide other clean cooking initiatives. Sistema.bio is a social enterprise that manufactures and distributes high-quality, affordable biodigesters that enable farmers to convert waste into energy and fertiliz...

As we build, design, refine, and scale data-driven solutions to big problems in global health, opportunities to work closely with our country partners are critically important. Over the last four years, we’ve had the privilege to work alongside the Tanzania Ministry of Health and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (...

Over the last ten years, a recurring theme of our clean cooking work has been the need to define clean cookstove adoption based on measured stove usage rather than sales or ownership. There is far too much evidence of improved stoves falling into disuse for us to assume that distributing a clean stove will have the intended impact on air quality, w...

We recently worked with Health Awareness on the 2020 Value of Vaccines campaign. A printed publication was enclosed within every copy of the Guardian newspaper and the content is available online at healthawareness.co.uk. The campaign featured exclusive content from key thought leaders and industry voices about the importance of vaccination through...

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we celebrated the blue skies, the majestic Himalayas now visible to people, and the rare view of a clean energy future. How can we maintain this visible promise of a cleaner and healthier world? Read the full story from our partners at the Climate and Clean Air Coalition here.    

  Despite decades of investments, research, and action, household air pollution continues to be a pressing global health issue. One village in Abuja, Nigeria is revealing a path forward. It’s our responsibility to listen and learn from the communities affected by indoor air pollution and find out what they have to say about the solutions that work ...

This year, the Nexleaf team embarked on a journey to tell our story in a more meaningful and impactful way. In creating our newest Impact Report, we examined how to bring the people that we work with and serve into sharper focus, and how to highlight the diverse contributions of our incredible team members.   We are delighted to announce Nexleaf’s ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nexleaf Analytics, the Center for Public Health and Development, and PagerDuty are partnering to bring better data on essential power for health clinics located in COVID-19 hotspots across Kenya.  LOS ANGELES and NAIROBI, 9/30/2020 – Today, Nexleaf is launching a project in Nairobi, Kenya to monitor the power availability in h...

Families in Notarpalli, India have been consistently cooking on clean cookstoves for their daily meals for over 2 years. by Denisse Ruiz, Sushanta Pradhan When Subani Pradhan received her new stove February 2016, she looked at the stove with skepticism. She questioned whether she could cook her family recipes on this stove, and whether the foods wo...

Innovation for Vaccine Impact Monitoring: A History of ColdTrace How do we ensure that vaccines are protected at the last mile? The viability of a vaccine is threatened without proper storage at the last mile of its supply chain. Vaccines are sensitive, and must be kept at a temperature of between 2 °C and 8 °C. A recent WHO & UNICEF joint statemen...

This post is based on a real email conversation, but the numbers here have been changed. We believe this is an important conversation, and that the entire non-profit sector — as well as funders — might benefit from considering factors like the ones discussed below. Enjoy! NITHYA is Nexleaf’s CEO. ERIN is our Data Communications Lead, and JESSE is o...

Welcome to The Leaf: Stories of Data for Impact, Nexleaf’s platform for sharing stories shaped by data. The Leaf will traverse the world, from our headquarters in Los Angeles to the ‘last mile,’ to recount how real-world impact is fostered by data. The last mile includes health workers in rural facilities in Tanzania administering safe vaccines to ...