Mohamed M. Aburawi
I scale bold ideas that reduce suffering, expand opportunity, and make prosperity more inclusive.
Dr. Mohamed Aburawi is a surgeon turned tech entrepreneur and founder of Atarona Ventures, where he builds and scales high-impact ventures advancing global health equity, education, financial inclusion, and clean energy. Guided by the belief that bold ideas can reduce suffering and expand opportunity, he works at the intersection of technology, impact investing, policy, and advocacy to unlock human potential for those often left behind by trickle-down innovation. He holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Center for Public Leadership Fellow, Edward S. Mason Fellow, and SICI Fellow. He also received an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
In 2017, Mohamed founded Speetar, an AI-enabled telehealth platform. Piloted in Libya and currently being scaled across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia, Speetar links under-served patients in low resource settings to a global pool of cultural and language-matched medical specialists.
Prior to launching Speetar, Mohamed worked at Harvard Medical School’s Center of Engineering in Medicine as a senior researcher where he led the design and development of a novel discarded human kidney reconditioning system, utilizing non-blood based ex-vivo organ perfusion (first in the USA); The cutting edge work he innovated is paving the way for a ground-breaking multi-center clinical trial supported by the New England Organ Bank.
In 2018, Mohamed was named one of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation GoalKeepers, and an Ashoka Visionary in recognition for his efforts leveraging digital technologies to enable healthcare delivery in low resource settings. In 2019, he was awarded the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Community Service Award and most recently was selected as an Aspen Institute Fellow and a Fellow at the MIT Legatum Center of Development and Entrepreneurship.
Mohamed’s passion for improving global healthcare outcomes continues to place him at the intersection of technology, business, and medicine. His work has been featured by Forbes, the BBC, Aljazeera, PRI, PRX, WGBH, and StartupScene MENA among other local and global outlets.