Brad Cohn, Renaissance Man

MediBabble

Brad Cohn is a Chief Resident in the Department of Anesthesia at UC San Francisco. He’s one of UCSFs Global Health Scholars and joined the Operation Rainbow Team in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in the winter of 2012. Brad loves any opportunity to work on expeditions abroad, but his interest in global health really began as a project to improve healthcare access for non-English speaking patients in the United States. He, and a dedicated team, designed MediBabble, a free healthcare interpretation app, first released as MediBabble Haiti (in February 2010), which is now in use by over 40,000 providers in 8 languages around the world. That said, Brad’s skillset includes neither translation nor software engineering, but he’s pretty good at carrying the Operation Rainbow duffel bags wherever his team goes.