Making it Easier to Make a Difference in the World

1. Making it Easier to Make a Difference in the World Dr Chris Stout Center for Global Initiatives & College of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago

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4. Who is in the audience today…? Clinicians…? Academics…? Grad students….? Early Career…? Anyone else….? Folks that just like to raise their hands…?

5. Today we’re going to discuss making a Difference in the World. You already do. Thank you. But what if you could scale?

6. Let me start with my story.

8. I didn’t start off all cool and hip

10. Books, Books, Books….

14. While the academic side was important (and great), I wanted to go into the field. On my first international medical mission, I saw what the diseases of poverty look like…

15. Halong Bay, Vietnam

16. “Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that are the result of neglect in poverty stricken communities. As for prevalence…

17. ~30,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases caused by poverty.

18. 500,000 children become blind each year from malnutrition.

19. 1.8 million people die annually from preventable diarrheal diseases.

20. While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention strategies include: Economic development Ending military conflict Developing education models – especially for females Technology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g., markets for goods) Fostering sustainable development

21. Sometimes one passion can pivot to another

25. Let me introduce you to some folks that have found out why…

27. REcovered Medical Equipment Developing Y (world) William Rosenblatt, MD

28. Sabriye Tenberken & Paul Kronenberg

29. Erik Weihenmayer

30. International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

31. Soweto, South Africa

33. Geek Corps Ethan Zuckerman

34. Sustainable Sciences Institute

35. Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole . Shobha Arole, MD

36. Overview of Activities (1970 – 2006) Changes in Health Indicators (1971-2006) 9,621 TB patients treated Infant Mortality Rate Reduction Maternal Health Tube-wells for safe 86.36% 198 drinking water Plant nurseries – villages 203 Antenatal Care 0.5% 100% Check dams 223 Safe Delivery <0.5% 100% Houses built for poor people Women involved in credit program 283 Family Planning <1.0% 65% Children under 5 6,064 Immun.(DPT, polio) 0.5% 87% Training in Community- Based Health (since 1983)  Persons from India  Persons from other countries Malnutr. (wt for age) 40% <1% 17,661 TB (prev./1000) 18 1.2 1,911

37. Institute for OneWorld Health Victoria Hale, PhD

38. Scojo Foundation.

39. Marie Charles, MD

40. Scojo Foundation. Jordan Kassalow, MD

41. So, I learned there is no fixed set of rules, no set path, that you have to follow.

43. Mother Theresa once said: “If you cannot feed one-hundred, then feed just one.”

44. Sometimes you can at least solve part of the problem….

45. So I have been doing some experimenting….

46. What if you could “Open Source” Humanitarian Intervention…?

47. What would it look like?

49. Well, here’s one option…