High-Impact Growth

By Dimagi

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A podcast for social entrepreneurs, global development funders, nonprofit leaders and anyone grappling with the challenge of how to build solutions that are both immensely impactful and also achieve high-growth. Join Dimagi CEO and co-founder, Jonathan Jackson, along with co-host Amie Vaccaro as we unpack learnings from 20 years building digital solutions for global health and development, explore barriers to and opportunities for high-impact growth, and speak with industry leaders from around the world. Find us at: https://dimagi.com/podcast/

Episode Date
Who Actually Owns This? Naming What's Broken with Nithya Ramanathan
Jun 26, 2026
40,000 Health Workers, One AI-Powered Lifeline
May 15, 2026
Closing the Gap: Scaling Mental Health Care Through Local Heroes with Pavel Reppo
Apr 15, 2026
Thinking About Individual Giving? Start Here
Feb 20, 2026
Beyond “AI for Good”: Building Responsible AI
Jan 22, 2026
[Pods Fight Poverty Re-Air] How GiveDirectly is Changing Aid
Dec 18, 2025
What Makes a Dollar Matter? Lessons from Coefficient Giving
Dec 10, 2025
The Thinking You Can't Skip: AI for Good at a Crossroads
Nov 13, 2025
Funders: The Power to Change the System
Oct 27, 2025
A Radical Bet on Simplicity and Affordability
Oct 09, 2025
Leading Through Chaos: Jayson Morris on Grief, Healing, and Emergent Leadership
Sep 22, 2025
Disrupted, Not Defeated: The Next Chapter in Global Development
Aug 27, 2025
The Somatic Edge: Leading with Capacity in a Stress-Filled World with Franzi Gonder
Jul 18, 2025
"The System's Burned Down. This Is Our Moment." With Nithya Ramanathan
Jun 13, 2025
Flipping the Script on Aid: Five Talents' Journey to Participatory Impact
May 15, 2025
Cash, Choice and Dignity: How GiveDirectly is Changing Aid
Apr 23, 2025
The People and Planet Parts of Running a “Sustainable” Company
Mar 20, 2025
The Future of Aid: Adapting to a Changing Funding Landscape
Mar 07, 2025
Building SaaS Products for Global Health: Lessons from CommCare & SureAdhere
Dec 19, 2024
From Extractive Data Collection to Inclusive Data Sharing: Nora Lindström on the Evolution of ICT4D
Nov 27, 2024
The Strategic Role of Data Management in Cure Violence Global’s Work
Oct 17, 2024
Improving Health Worker Jobs to Improve Outcomes with CommCare Connect
Sep 13, 2024
Financing Community Health Programs with Africa Frontline First
Aug 29, 2024
Building Tech Products that Matter in a Broken Market
Aug 15, 2024
Harnessing Somatic Intelligence: Tools and Practices for Leading in Uncertainty
Jul 23, 2024
What’s New in AI: Equity-enhancing use cases and Open Chat Studio
Jun 13, 2024
System Catalysts: Why are Thousands of Donated Organs Thrown Away Each Year?
May 22, 2024
Solve One Problem: From vision to global impact with Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, Co-Founder of MiracleFeet
May 13, 2024
From I to We: Trust, Co-Creation and Ego in Social Innovation with Jeroo Billimoria
May 03, 2024
Glasswing International: Empowering Communities through Mental Health Care and Leveraging Technology for Lasting Impact
Mar 12, 2024
Empowering Healthcare Access: How the US Digital Service at CMS is shaping policies and creating an equitable digital future
Jan 22, 2024
Equity and AI in Global Health: leveraging AI to benefit underserved populations and dispel Inequitable Dystopia
Dec 18, 2023
Category Design and why it matters for Global Health and Development Organizations engaged in Breakthrough Work
Nov 20, 2023
Reimagining Tuberculosis Treatment and Care: Putting People at the Center of Tech Innovation with Jackie Huh
Oct 23, 2023
Enabling and Elevating Community Health Workers across the US: Insights from MHP Salud’s Impact Delivery Approach to Technology
Sep 18, 2023
Introducing Impact Delivery: Raising the Bar for Digital In Global Health & Development
Sep 04, 2023
From Skepticism to Scale: Lessons from Friendship Bench with Dr. Dixon Chibanda
Aug 21, 2023
Ethiopia’s Digitization Journey: The Path to Paperless with Dr. Girma Tadesse
Aug 09, 2023
How the proCHW movement can enable quality care for all with Dr. Madeleine Ballard
Jul 25, 2023
Too Valuable to Fail | Your Questions Answered
Jul 14, 2023
Scaling mental health care: Exploring the intersection of mental health, physical health, human connection & technology
Jul 10, 2023
Empowering TB Patients through Technology: The SureAdhere Impact
Jun 28, 2023
Taking New Technology from Research to Commercial Scale: The SureAdhere Story with Dr. Richard Garfein and Dr. Kelly Collins
Jun 19, 2023
Reimagining global mental health care with a person-centered, digitally-enabled approach with Dr. Vikram Patel, successor to Paul Farmer at Harvard Medical School
Jun 12, 2023
How Community Health Workers Shaped the Creation of CommCare, the Platform for Impactful Frontline Work with Gayo Mhila
Jun 05, 2023
Championing a Movement to Pay and Professionalize Community Health Workers with Margaret Odera
May 29, 2023
Building Resilience: The Key to Combating Burnout in Frontline Workers with Lilianna Bagnoli
May 22, 2023
Equity and AI in Global Health: Exploring Large Language Models, Building Chatbots and Embracing Discomfort
May 15, 2023
A New Era for Development with Raj Kumar of Devex: Shifting from a Project Mindset to an Investment Mindset
May 08, 2023
Undersupported, Unrecognized and Vital: 3 Community Health Workers supported by Lwala Community Alliance Speak Out
May 01, 2023
The Four Pillars of Community-Led Health: Insights from Julius Mbeya, Co-CEO at Lwala Community Alliance
Apr 25, 2023
Reducing health inequities through digital innovation with Olukunle Akinwusi of FIND & Erica Troncoso of Jhpiego: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum 2022
Apr 17, 2023
Building digital as a horizontal foundation: Insights from growing Dimagi's marketing team
Apr 03, 2023
Reflections on Starting this Podcast
Mar 28, 2023
How to double the impact of your team with Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers
Mar 15, 2023
Prioritizing better jobs for Frontline Workers in the digital health community with Jonathan Jackson: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Mar 06, 2023
Meeting the Need for Global Mental Health Care with Digital featuring Lauren Magoun: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum
Feb 27, 2023
How will advances in AI impact global health and development with Clayton Sims: Dispatches from the Global Digital Health Forum 2022
Feb 20, 2023
Partnering with the government to improve maternal health with Nick Pearson and Sathy Rajasekharan of Jacaranda Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Feb 13, 2023
Creating a Digital Ecosystem to Improve Frontline Humanitarian Impact: Mercy Corps’ Approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Feb 06, 2023
Advocating for Frontline Workers at Davos: Reflections from a Social Entrepreneur after the World Economic Forum
Feb 02, 2023
Unlocking the Potential of AI in Public Health with Rebecca Distler of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Jan 30, 2023
Taking a whole-of-government approach to digital health in Zambia with Innocent Chiboma from the Zambian Ministry of Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Jan 23, 2023
Embrace complexity for impact: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (Part 4)
Jan 16, 2023
Must-Listen Guidance for Technologists in Global Health from Malawi’s Head of Digital Health, Simeon Yosefe: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Jan 09, 2023
Evolve by learning and sharing openly: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 3)
Dec 19, 2022
Lead with empathy and respect: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 2)
Dec 12, 2022
Nick Martin of TechChange on Training, Content, and the Evolution and Maturation of Digital Health: Dispatches from the 2022 Global Digital Health Forum
Dec 06, 2022
Be bold but humble: Articulating Dimagi’s culture and values with Lucina Tse, Gillian Javetski, Avni Singhal and Simon Kelly (part 1)
Nov 29, 2022
Bringing Global Health Best Practices to US Public Health Response: Entering the US Market to Meet the Needs of COVID-19 with Carter Powers, Sarah Sagan and Lily Olson
Oct 24, 2022
The Journey to Scale: Lessons learned from supporting the largest digitally-enabled Frontline Worker program in the world with Kriti Mehrotra, Shayoni Mazumdar and Stella Luk
Oct 13, 2022
Takeaways from the 77th United Nations General Assembly: Breaking Down Silos, Supporting the Global Fund’s 7th Replenishment, and Unpacking Global Development’s Talent Gap with Dr. Kelly Collins
Sep 28, 2022
Failure is Not Free: Maximizing Learning Velocity with Funding from USAID Development Innovation Ventures with Kriti Mehrotra, Jeremy Wacksman and Sri Ranganathan
Sep 26, 2022
Dimagi’s Big Break: Receiving Instrumental Core Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with Tim Wood, Former Senior Program Officer
Sep 12, 2022
Solving Hard Problems, Designing Under the Mango Tree, and Taking a Product Approach: Lessons Learned from the Making of CommCare featuring Dr. Brian DeRenzi, Clayton Sims, Cory Zue and Dr. Neal Lesh
Aug 29, 2022
Out-collaborating vs Out-competing: The Secret to Making Progress on Complex International Development Challenges with Gillian Javetski
Aug 15, 2022
Why Improving Frontline Worker Jobs is Critical to Improving Health Outcomes with Dr. Neal Lesh
Aug 01, 2022
The Challenges and Opportunities of Taking Digital Solutions to National Scale with Ismaïla Diene and Fatou Sow (Exceed Market Expectations)
Jul 18, 2022
Developing CommCare to Scale iNGO Impact with Dev More (Exponential Growth Part 3)
Jul 04, 2022
Building a Partner Ecosystem & Subverting the Hubris of Aid with Rowena Luk (Exponential Growth part 2)
Jun 22, 2022
Prioritizing Platforms Over Projects with Danny Roberts (Exponential Growth Part 1)
Jun 06, 2022
Business Model Changes, Key Hires, and Cultural Evolution with Jonathan Jackson and Dr. Neal Lesh (The Founding Story Part 2)
May 23, 2022
Fortuitous Meetings and Tough Decisions with Dr. Vikram Kumar and Jonathan Jackson (The Founding Story Part 1)
May 23, 2022
TRAILER: Introducing High-Impact Growth
May 23, 2022