Temie Giwa-Tubosun, founder of LifeBank, has won the 2020 Global Citizen Prize for Business Leader.
LifeBank is a healthcare technology and logistics startup based in Lagos, Nigeria. This startup facilitates the transmission of blood from labs across the country to patients and doctors in hospitals.
The Global Citizen Prize for Business Leader honors an individual in the business community who has combined business goals with positive human impact.
Temie Giwa-Tubosun is celebrated for her work as a health advocate in addressing blood shortages in Nigeria, as well as her innovative use of technology. She is also recognized for LifeBank’s COVID-19 response — including launching testing centers, and free delivery of medical oxygen to COVID-19 patients in isolation centers.
According to Giwa-Tubosun in 2017 said, “I started LifeBank because I wanted a world where women no longer died from preventable causes like postpartum hemorrhage.”
Blood shortages in Nigeria contribute to the deaths of 152,000 anemic children and 37,000 pregnant women each year, and are responsible for innumerable complications for women immediately after childbirth.
In June this year, Giwa-Tubosun was selected as the 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa recipient of Cartier’s Women’s Initiative. Last year, She won the 1st prize of $250,000 in Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize.
In 2018, LifeBank emerged as a winner at the 2018 MIT Solve Global Challenge. The startup won under the “Frontlines of Health” Challenges category which is targeted at how communities invest in frontline health workers and services to improve their access to effective and affordable care.
