Michael Seid Email & Phone Number

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Chief Concept Officer of Social Franchisors CFW Clinics (CFW) (healthstore.org) and One Family Health (OFH) (onefamilyhealth.org) and a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the HealthStore Foundation. CFW and OFH, based in Kenya and Rwanda were established to provide clinical services and essential medicines in the peri-urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Michael is committed to the use of business format franchising as a method for improving the human condition and for having a world-changing impact on poverty, diseases, and economic development. Michael also founded and serves as the Chairman-Emeritus for the International Franchising Association’s Social Sector Task Force.CFW and OFH currently have close to two hundred franchisee-owned medical clinics. The combined franchise systems have served over ten million patients since their founding in 2000. “Our clinics are independently owned and operated by women who are Kenyan and Rwanda nurses. We are proud of the performance of CFW and OFH and the amazing work of our franchisees in providing quality health care and authentic medicines in underserved markets”, said Seid.

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Michael has served on the IFA’s board for a combined total of over thirteen years and was the first supplier ever directly elected to the IFA’s Board of Directors. During that period, as Chairman of the IFA’s Supplier Forum, he also served as a member of the IFA’s Executive Committee and continues to serve on several IFA committees.

I have been appointed as a OSU Faculty Member to develop a graduate course at the Fisher School - Understand the Dynamics and Requirements of Commercial and Social Franchising.I am a member of the OSU Global Water Institute Board (GWI) GWI serves as an integrator of the water, food, energy and health assets of Ohio State University across seven colleges, several interdisciplinary centers and three trans-university initiatives. What differentiates the Global Water Institute from other organizations at Ohio State is its commitment to research for development—finding sustainable systems solutions for today’s pressing problems by acting as a neutral technology integrator to layer Ohio State University assets with those of key external groups.The Global Water Institute uses the same end-to-end, systems approach to tackle three global water resource issues:• Field to Faucet: Harmful algal blooms in intensively farmed, heavily populated regions• City to Sea: Coastal vulnerability from natural disasters and sea level rise • Wells to Wellness: Rural water and sanitation access in developing nations

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