Who we are

You care about making healthcare inclusive.

We care about helping you do it.

Clove is a health communications company for businesses changing the way we think about health & wellness.

The landscape of healthcare is shifting

The landscape of healthcare
is shifting from

intervention to prevention.
fee-for-service to values-based care.
location-first to digital-first.
standardized to individualized.
transactional to collaborative.

Shouldn’t our language shift, too?

Inclusive care improves outcomes. When we build healthcare around the humanity of our patients and providers, everyone does better. Our communities are safer, healthier, and more equitable. Patients feel empowered. Providers feel engaged.

We created Clove to help you put inclusivity at the heart of how you do healthcare. Content is just the beginning.

How can Clove help you transform healthcare?
ENG: A Southeast Asian woman resting on her elbows on a bed next to a young boy with hair past is ears. They are looking at a tablet and laughing together. | ESP: Una mujer del sudeste asiático descansa sobre sus codos en una cama junto a un niño con el pelo pasado de orejas. Están mirando una tableta y riéndose juntos.
ENG: Latinx medical professional with ligh brown skin and short dark hair is standing and bumps elbows with a sitting teenage White boy with short light blonde hair. Two young boys are also sitting down, and a woman medical professional is in the background. | ESP: Un profesional médico Latinx con piel morena clara y cabello corto y oscuro está de pie y se toca el codo con un adolescente blanco sentado con cabello corto y rubio claro. Dos niños pequeños también están sentados y una mujer profesional médica está en el fondo.
ENG: White health professional with a white lab coat faces toward and places a stethoscope on the chest of a smiling black girl with long braids. The girls' mother has her arm around her and smiles at her. ESP: Un profesional de la salud de tez blanca con una bata de laboratorio blanca mira hacia y coloca un estetoscopio en el pecho de una niña de tez morena sonriente con largas trenzas. La madre de las niñas la rodea con el brazo y le sonríe.
ENG: Two friends who are men greet each other. One man has light skin and a full, dark beard and a black prosthetic leg is sitting and greeting a black man with short dreadlocks in a wheelchair. | ESP: Dos amigos que son hombres se saludan. Un hombre tiene la tez carte y una barba oscuro y tiene una pierna ortopédica negra que está sentado y saluda a un hombre de tez morena con rastas cortas en una silla de ruedas.
ENG: A person in a labcoat whose face is out of the shot places a stethoscope on the chest of a sitting older man with dark grey hair and a white goatee. | ESP: Una persona con una bata de laboratorio cuyo rostro está fuera de la toma coloca un estetoscopio en el pecho de un hombre mayor sentado con cabello gris oscuro y barba blanca.
ENG: An older light-skinned woman in wheelchair toches her face light ad smiles as a young light-skinned woman sitting next to her shows her a cellphone. An older White man stans next to the woman in the whelchair and smiles looking at the cellphone, too. | ESP: Una mujer mayor de piel clara en silla de ruedas se toca la cara y sonríe mientras una mujer joven de piel clara sentada a su lado le muestra un teléfono celular. Un hombre blanco mayor está junto a la mujer en la silla de ruedas y también sonríe mirando el teléfono celular.
ENG: One person's two hands cup another persons' one hand appearing to comfort them. Only hands and arms are pictured. | ESP: Las dos manos de una persona ahuecan la mano de otra persona y parecen consolarlas. Solo se visuallizan manos y brazos.
ENG: In the forefront, an Asian woman with short white hair laughs while doing hula hoop with her friend, an older white woman with shoulder-length hair, in the background. | ESP: En primer plano, una mujer asiática de pelo corto y blanco se ríe mientras hace hula hoop con su amiga, una mujer blanca mayor con el pelo hasta los hombros, al fondo.
ENG: A white doctor with short brown hair and a light blue facemask holds a notepad and faces a young black boy with an afro and a white facemask. A white woman with glasses looking at her cellphone is in the background. | ESP: Un médico de tez blanca con cabello castaño corto y una mascarilla azul claro sostiene un bloc de notas y se enfrenta a un joven negro con un afro y una mascarilla blanca. Una mujer blanca con anteojos mirando su celular está al fondo.
ENG: Black woman with long, dark curly hair sitting on a couch typing on her computer. | ESP: Mujer de piel morena con cabello largo y rizado oscuro sentada en un sofá escribiendo en su computadora.
ENG: Woman health professional with long dark hair in a ponytail faces away from the camera toward an older woman with light brown skin and grey and white curly hair. | ESP: Una mujer profesional de la salud con cabello largo y oscuro recogido en una cola de caballo mira hacia el lado contrario de la cámara hacia una mujer mayor con piel morena clara y cabello rizado gris y blanco.
ENG: Older man with greying hair and glasses facing his laptop for telemedicine appointment. A woman doctor with long dark hair and a lab coat is on the screen. | ESP: Hombre mayor con cabello canoso y anteojos frente a su computadora portátil para una cita de telemedicina. En la pantalla aparece una doctora con el pelo largo y oscuro y una bata de laboratorio.

Our team

Who We Are

Our founding team is a diverse group of educators, researchers, practitioners, and patients. We have a unique blend of professional, academic, and lived experiences that collectively empower us to do this work.

ENG: Tim Frie is pictured. He is a white man with a wide smile, short dark hair and dark rectangular glasses. | ESP: Tim Frie está en la foto. Es un hombre blanco con una amplia sonrisa, cabello corto y oscuro y anteojos rectangulares oscuros.

Tim Frie (he/him)

Founder

Tim is a health equity and health justice activist, mental health advocate, educator, and multidisciplinary researcher who is passionate about trauma-informed and inclusive health care. He started Clove Health because he doesn’t want anyone to experience what he and his family did while navigating the American healthcare system.

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ENG: Sasha Aparicio appears in the photo. She is a white woman with long blond hair parted to the side and light-colored glasses. Sasha Aparicio aparece en la foto. Es una mujer de tez clara con cabello largo y rubio con raya a un lado y anteojos de color claro.

Sasha Aparicio (she/her/ella)

Chief Content Officer

Sasha is a food and nutrition anthropologist, multidisciplinary researcher, professor, writer, and advocate who is passionate about inclusive care, nutrition security, and health equity. She is Guatemalan-American and is bilingual in Spanish and English.

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ENG: Ebony Williams is pictured. She is a black woman with a wide smile, and short, dark, curly hair parted to the side. | ESP: Ebony Williams aparece en la foto. Es una mujer de piel morena con una amplia sonrisa y cabello corto, oscuro y rizado con raya a un lado.

Ebony Williams (she/her)

Chief Health Equity Officer

Ebony is a multidisciplinary researcher, adjunct professor, health equity activist, health informatics professional, wellness coach, and patient advocate who is passionate about inclusive and equitable healthcare.

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