Dr. Ben Bellows is co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Nivi Inc., a digital health platform empowering individuals on their health journey and, in the process, shaping markets and health systems for the next billion. Charities, for-profits, and public agencies use Nivi’s platform to optimize engagement with their target audiences and improve healthcare journeys. Prior to Nivi, Ben was a health systems researcher at the Population Council in Kenya and Zambia, undertaking studies of healthcare financing, aiming to expand reproductive and maternal healthcare access with partners in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia. His lifelong work covers digital technologies, human rights, and reproductive health. Ben has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed manuscripts and holds a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley.