2025 Funding Impact | 2025年の慈善資金の影響

In Q1 2025, Apple Appuru Foundation funded ONNA Women's Health | 女性の健康  http://onnahealth.org for a prototype entered into Google's Women Techmakers presents She Builds AI.

Onna Health was a women's health educational Question & Answer AI-enabled app aimed at solving for United Nations SDG #5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. 

Onna was built using Flutter and FlutterFlow.io, Firebase, and Google Gemini AI API as well as Algolia search.  Generative AI may be helpful at answering health questions, particularly women's health questions. 

But there is an ongoing need for some type of quality check of the output. ONNA was designed to combine the ease and customization of AI answers supplied by Google Gemini AI for women's health questions, fused with the trust and safety of actual doctors.  

Please see the non-technical user stories design video here: https://youtu.be/B6muZqcOD2M  

Onna Health was boot-strapped with questions and prompts designed by actual young women and women's health doctors on the team, in order to help guide women of all ages to questions that are not always easy to ask, or easy to remember to ask, in the privacy of their own phones and devices. These are featured in the user stories and demo video. These informed the design of the system.  Trust and safety are important. AI cannot do it all. 

To help improve the safety and validity of answers generated by Gemini AI, doctors could upvote or downvote answers generated by the platform. Doctors would ideally verify their identity using Doximity OAuth verification, or else manually verify by providing their credentials to ONNA staff for review. Alternatively, having enough social connections to verified doctors on the platform can validate other doctors, especially non-US doctors. (At scale Onna Health could use EigenTrust or a more sophisiticated algorithm, but for now it could use a simple threshold like 3 verified acquaintances). 

By doing this, doctors are recognized for their contribution, and patients can search for doctor-experts who are on the platform and find their Google Maps listings for appointments and more. We anticipate the point system to also be useful for other redemptions in the future, such as directing donations to charities etc.

Our Inspiration

Mariko Ladies Clinic is owned and run by Dr. Mariko Yamada, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Yokohama, Japan. Every day she sees over 100 patients, without any exaggeration. This is because of a shortage of women's health care in general. Her patients love her, but she also could use more time, resources and help to help educate women further about OB/Gyn health issues. Furthermore, in Japan, cervical cancer vaccination ended after 2000, leading to increased rates of cervical cancer since. More education is needed.