About Ed Pettitt
Ed Pettitt is a healthcare innovator, hospitality entrepreneur, and urban changemaker with a bachelor degree in human biology, health, and society from Cornell University, and a master of public health from The University of Texas School of Public Health. Ed provides healthcare and hospitality consulting services through Wellspring Houston and is co-founder of Globin Medical, a medical device startup.
Ed has over two decades of experience in community activism and urban development and has been recognized for his service as a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. Ed is a co-founder of the Houston Global Health Collaborative and a founding co-chair of the Global Health Innovations and Action Foundation.
Media Coverage
HARVEY REFLECTIONS (RICE KINDER INSTITUTE)
Ed Pettitt has lived in Houston since 2011 and done a little bit of everything. With a background that includes time in the Peace Corps and medical research, Pettitt tends to get restless. In addition to hosting guests at his Third Ward home through Airbnb, he is involved in the Emancipation Economic Development Council and local rotary group. During Harvey, again, he did a little bit of everything, including help recruit new Airbnb hosts to offer space to displaced Houstonians.
NEW CIVIC APP (KHOU 11)
Many residents feel that the city is not doing enough to clean it up, so they're taking matters into their own hands. Edward Pettitt let his frustration inspire him to team up with a programmer and engineer to create Task Bounty, one of the winning apps at the City of Houston's Hackathon. The app lets people submit a task, location and how much they're willing to pay to get the problem fixed so that a contractor can claim it. Pettitt hopes the app will be able to go live next year.
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