ROME, ITALY - DECEMBER 02: Clifton Leaf, Deputy Editor of Fortune, and Raj Panjabi, Last Mile Health Co-founder and CEO, speak at the Fortune + Time Global Forum 2016 on December 2, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images for TIME)Elisabetta Villa — Getty Images for TIME
- TitleCEO
- AffiliationLast Mile Health
Tackling the “last mile”—the final, critical step of delivering products or services to consumers—is a conundrum for businesses, and in health care, last-mile problems hit poor regions especially hard. Panjabi’s nonprofit, Last Mile Health, is striving to change that by training locals in developing countries in lifesaving measures, such as protecting themselves against pandemics and safely burying victims killed by infectious diseases. Last Mile has already proved its mettle; its work in Liberia helped stanch the spread of Ebola during the 2014 outbreak.