We didn't plan this. We just couldn't stop.
Butterfly Collaborative started with one medical team, one trip to Ghana, and one doctor who couldn't go back to normal life afterward.
We’re a team of Dr. Blair, Dr. Flores, Dr. Legg, Dr. Matsumoto, Dr. Moffit and many other colleagues.
In 2013, Dr. Diane Matsumoto went to Africa for the first time.She went because her daughter wanted to go on a medical mission, and she said yes. She did not go because she had a plan for a global health NGO. She definitely did not go to change her life.
And then she landed, and everything changed.
Over the next decade, she led medical missions to three countries and met the most incredible group of talented health care professionals.
She was joined by Dr. Flores, Global Health Pharmacy, Dr. Blair, Infectious Disease, Dr. Legg, International child trauma and Dr. Moffit, Woman’s health care. They quickly realized they didn’t quite fit with typical medical teams—too much medicine, too rigorous, too unwilling to accept the status quo.
She was joined by Dr. Flores, Global Health Pharmacy, Dr. Blair, Infectious Disease, Dr. Legg, International child trauma and Dr. Moffit, Woman’s health care. They quickly realized they didn’t quite fit with typical medical teams—too much medicine, too rigorous, too unwilling to accept the status quo.
Butterfly Collaborative was built on a simple belief: that the most vulnerable people in the world deserve the same quality of care as everyone else.
Not charity medicine. Not "good enough for Africa." The real thing.
Today, BC operates feeding centers serving 30,000 children, runs mobile medical clinics, leads mental health and disability care programs, and is conducting nutritional research that has the attention of governments and major international health institutions.
Malawi’s primary institution for medical and interprofessional health education — signed across five university departments, for five years, the first of their kind in the institution's history.
We're still small. We still run on faith and stubbornness and remarkable people. And we've never been more needed.
Timeline / milestone strip:
2013 — First medical mission, Ghana
2022 — Butterfly Collaborative founded
2023 — First research presentations; First operations in Malawi
2024 — Butterfly Collaborative Clinic was established with a commitment to care for 30,000 orphaned and vulnerable children.
2025 — Disability care program ; RUTF alternative research advances; MOU signed with Kamuzu University of Health Sciences