Media Coverage
January 9, 2025
"The question of how to create support networks around expectant mothers had been on Fareed’s mind since then. The answer came to him as he watched the Moroccan players celebrating with their mothers on the pitch, surrounded by thousands of ecstatic football fans. 'It dawned on me that football fans are the largest and most engaged social network in the world,' Fareed recalls. 'What if we use the football community of five billion people to reach out to pregnant mothers and support them? What if we turned football clubs into hubs for maternal well-being? Football is about joy and celebration. Why don’t we use it to celebrate mothers as well, like the Morocco team was doing?''
December 5, 2024
"FC Mother has partnered with the Carson Family Office, a pioneering investor, to establish the new H-Sports economy and host the World Cup of Healing in Omaha, Nebraska in the summer of 2026 - coinciding with FIFA's World Cup. The World Cup of Healing will be the largest healing impact event in the world and a global celebration of healing excellence with football fandom, with the shared mission to heal our mothers."
December 3, 2024
FC Mother receives the Innovation Award at the World Football Summit's Honors Dinner with FIFA and the Diriyah Company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
"The embrace of the global football community of our work to Heal our Mothers through the beautiful game has been...extraordinary, warp speed, and beyond our greatest hopes. Thank you for opening up such a warm welcome to our public health and healing movement - Jan Alessie and the incredible team, partners, and community at #WFSAsia." - Morad Fareed
October 31, 2024
"The official signing ceremony and launch of the FC Mother's World Cup of Healing 2034, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!! ❤️ ⚡
Thanks to our Amazing partners:
🏆Dr. Niko Mihic, MD, CFPC (Real Madrid)
🏆Ahood Al Amari (Saudi Women's National Team Coach)
🏆Abbas F. ("Eddy") Zuaiter (33 Capital)
🏆Mohammad Amer K. (Super Fight League)
Together we are forming the world's largest healing impact competition to lead a new football-inspired movement for our mothers' honor, well being, and health….culminating in World Cup 2034 in Saudi Arabia.
An incredible honor to finally make this great dream a tangible reality for our mothers. Thank you to the brilliant team at FII Institute for their visionary platform!!!" - Morad Fareed
"🤝 FC Mother was thrilled to announce a groundbreaking 10-year joint venture at hashtag#FII8 between FC Mother and the Sports Doctors Network on a mission to transform the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia into the first-ever World Cup of Healing. This unprecedented partnership will engage 5B football fans & 4,500 clubs globally, create the world's largest maternal wellbeing dataset and pioneer a new category: Healing-Sports (H-Sports)" - FII
"Health startups need diverse, high-quality data to inform decisions and power solutions. RBC Capital Markets estimates the healthcare industry generates 30% of the world’s data volume, growing at 36% annually by 2025. How can startups partner with data providers, policymakers, and stakeholders to access more data and scale their businesses?
SPEAKERS:
Will Ahmed, Founder & CEO, WHOOP
Taylor Capito, Co-Founder & CEO, GenRait, Inc.
Morad Fareed, Founder, FC Mother, Chairman, H-Sports Institute
Joshua Fink, Founder & Managing Partner, Luma Group
MODERATOR:
Nisa Leung, Managing Partner, Qiming Ventures"
October 11, 2024
"Historic Day the House of Lords in the UK!
FC Mother and the Sports Doctors Network led by Dr. Niko Mihic, MD, CFPC of Real Madrid have formally signed the FC Mother Standard, and are forming the FC Mother League!!! ⚕⚽⚡
The FC Mother League is a new global competition engaging with the world's leading football clubs and their 5 billion fans in a new game, to help solve the world's most important problem - our mothers and their well being! We call this Healing Sports (H-sports) and have reimagined football clubs as public health vehicles.
9 years ago, we signed the first maternal health resolution in US Govt Mayors history, endorsed by 1,300+ US Mayors. I can't tell you what a great feeling and honor it is today to work with football clubs instead to honor our mothers. Football, is the most important social vehicle in humanity... just ask any futboler how they became who they are, and the answer is invariably their mother. " - Morad Fareed
Morad Fareed, interviewed at the FII Priority Summit in Rio de Janeiro, announces the FC Mother project. This initiative aims to improve maternal health by leveraging football as a social change tool. Morad explains that after a decade of research with Harvard, the project decided to bypass traditional healthcare and governmental avenues, opting to work through football due to its universal appeal and influence. The project partners with the Pelé Foundation and plans to launch a new Brazilian league, gamifying maternal health to engage and educate communities. Morad highlights the critical role mothers play in the development of footballers and humanity, emphasizing the need to prioritize maternal health, which is often overlooked by governments and investors. He stresses the importance of addressing this issue, which costs humanity dearly in terms of life years and economic impact.
Tune in to FII Institute TV for the full interview: https://www.fii-institute.tv/video/2185
Morgan Stanley Profile:
Healthy Beginnings
"Morad Fareed has built a career creating companies and projects that improve the well-being and environments of others.
His latest venture as founder and CEO of Square Roots, a discovery company focused on improving maternal and infant health, epitomizes his passion for advancing how we live."
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The Financial Impact of Healthy Buildings
"Developed by Delos, a wellness real estate and technology firm, in 2014, WELL is operated by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and certified by the Green Business Certification Incorporation (GBCI), which administers the LEED certification program as well.
Because of this, the Well Building Standard is modeled closely to LEED, but focuses exclusively on impacts to human health and wellbeing through seven sectors: air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind."
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"Nearly four million women give birth in the United States each year, and more than 50,000 of these mothers experience severe, life-threatening complications.
This makes the United States among the most dangerous countries in the developed world to give birth. In much of Sub-Saharan Africa, maternal mortality is going down.
In the United States of America, maternal mortality is going up and has been going up steadily for more than 20 years. Perhaps most disturbingly, we don't even fully understand why this is happening."
