Mustafa Naseem is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Mustafa’s interests lie at the intersection of technology and and social impact. Mustafa’a recent focus is on designing technologies that enable behavior change among men in patriarchal countries with a goal to improve the health of women and children in low-income communities.
Mustafa has taught and led ICT, design, and entrepreneurship programs in six countries in Africa, Asia and North America, and prior to joining Michigan Mustafa was the ICTD Expert-in-Residence at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Master’s degree from the ATLAS Institute on a Fulbright Scholarship, and was shortlisted among 12 finalist Rolex Awards for Enterprise Young Laureates in 2016.
Mustafa aspires to, and believes in, scaling solutions through the public sector and non-profit partners to create sustainable impact. A few of Mustafa’s projects have impacted tens of thousands of lives in Punjab, Pakistan. Mustafa’s work has been been supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), among others.