A nongovernmental organization established in 2006 with United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, headquartered jointly in Bamako, Mali and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mali Health works to enable communities in Mali to design, build and implement their own health care systems, organizing its work around fostering the agency of residents to address their own community's health needs, promoting health education, prevention and early care seeking, and improving the financial, geographic and cultural access that poor families have to quality health care. The organization treats community ownership, rather than outside delivery of services alone, as the foundation of lasting improvement in primary health care access for Mali's poorest families.
Facts
Health GoalEnabling communities in Mali to design, build and implement their own health care systems. 1 Geographic ScopeMali (headquartered jointly in Bamako and Sikoro, Mali, and Cambridge, Massachusetts) 1 Measured ResultsIts Action for Health program, launched in 2010, had grown to serve almost 2,000 children as of the cited report, with enrolled children averaging 2 to 3 doctor visits per year. 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindHealth Education Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mali, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Mali Health
WikipediaLead paragraph
Mali Health, established in 2006, is a non-governmental organization with 501(c)(3) status.
History section, paragraph 1
Mali Health was founded in Sikoro, a slum community on the outskirts of Bamako, Mali by C.(aitlin) Lee Cohen, Lindsay Ryan and Erica Trauba, students at Brown University who had previously volunteered in Bamako.
Programs, Action for Health section
After launching in 2010, the program grew quickly and now serves almost 2,000 children.
Lead paragraph (mission clause)
is a non-governmental organization with 501(c)(3) status that works to enable communities in Mali, Africa to design, build and implement their own health care systems through:
- Wikipedia 'Mali Health': present-tense description of current work; checked 2026-09-27.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Mali Health works to enable communities in Mali to design, build and implement their own health care systems, organizing its work around fostering the agency of residents to address their own community's health needs, promoting health education, prevention and early care seeking, and improving the financial, geographic and cultural access that poor families have to quality health care.
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