The people behind TamamHealth
Three co-founders from Tufts University on a shared mission to transform healthcare delivery across Africa.
Meet the founders
Teny Makuach
Teny founded TamamHealth and designed the platform's architecture — the offline-first engine, clinical workflows, and sync protocol. Born in Kakuma Refugee Camp, he brings firsthand understanding of what healthcare workers need when infrastructure fails. He leads product vision and ensures every feature serves the clinician at the bedside.
Toye Adebayo
Toye leads TamamHealth's technical execution — hardening the PouchDB-to-CouchDB sync protocol, building the FHIR-compliant API layer, and architecting the system to handle thousands of concurrent offline nodes. His distributed systems expertise ensures clinical data stays consistent across unreliable networks.
Ekow Williams
Ekow bridges hardware and operations — from the low-power connectivity infrastructure that keeps rural clinics online to the deployment logistics that put TamamHealth in the field. His electrical engineering background drives the hardware strategy that makes digital health possible where most technology fails.
APRIL 2026
$10,000 Healthcare Track Winner
In April 2026, the TamamHealth team competed in the Tufts $100K New Ventures Competition — the flagship venture competition at Tufts University, hosted by the Derby Entrepreneurship Center. Teams from across the university pitch their ventures in three tracks: General, Social Impact, and Healthcare & Life Science.
TamamHealth won the Healthcare & Life Science Track, taking home $10,000 in prize funding. The judges recognized the team's deep connection to the problem — a platform built by someone who grew up in a refugee camp, engineered by students who understood that the best healthcare software is the kind that works when everything else fails.
Small team. Deep empathy. Relentless focus.
TamamHealth was born from lived experience and a shared mission. We're a three-person founding team building out of Tufts University. We move fast, stay close to the problem, and talk to healthcare workers every week.
Everything we build is tested against real clinical workflows and validated by the people who will actually use it. We believe the best healthcare technology is built by small teams with deep empathy for the communities they serve.
Advisors & mentors
We're building an advisory board of healthcare leaders, technologists, and operators from East Africa and the diaspora. If you're interested in advising TamamHealth, we'd love to talk.
Join the mission
We're looking for talented engineers, designers, clinical advisors, and healthcare professionals who believe that the best healthcare technology is built by people who understand the problem firsthand. If you want to build tools that work when lives are on the line, we want to talk.
Or email us directly at careers@tamamhealth.org