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We health folks should make a project page describing the active projects so potential collaborators can see what we're up to. |
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Made text for a future email message or flyer to [[Health_content#Flyer_info_.2F_Criteria|ask for contributions of appropriate health content]]. This is, in a way, an iteration on [[request for content]] -- I don't feel a web form is the way to go. |
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Latest revision as of 04:17, 24 June 2008
Summary of me
- Helping coordinate content pertaining to health
- safe drinking water
- sanitation & hygiene
- nutrition
- HIV/AIDS
- other infectious diseases
- childbirth
- women's health
- An MIT Ph.D. candidate working on a delivery system for an HIV vaccine antigen in development at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
- Water/sanitation experience
- Worked on solar water disinfection (SoDis) through MIT D-Lab and IDEAS developing a collapsible plastic bag alternative to soda bottles
- Performed materials analysis (porosimetry, electron microscopy) on silver-seeded ceramic pot filters made by Potters for Peace, Nicaragua
- Small-scale field work in the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal performing water quality testing
- Languages
- Spanish (fluent)
- Russian (native speaker)
- Fun facts
- MA certified volunteer EMT-B with MIT Ambulance since 2002
- Host a weekly radio talk show called In Vivo on WMBR 88.1FM
- Dilinger and I are about to become organic beekeepers!
I wish I knew you
- Mitchell N. Charity
- Seth Woodworth
- David Greisen
- Pascal Scheffers
- Matt Keller -- worked for World Food Programme directly, now Europe/Middle East/Africa\ coordinator for OLPC
12/19 picking Sj's brain: Where we are in terms of getting together awesome health materials
As of 19:18, 19 December 2007 (EST) based on milking Sj's brain
- We want materials for kids to teach them about health, their bodies, what it means to get sick
- Material that parents can get through their kids when kids take them home. If they kids can learn it, they can teach their families
- Groups participating as of a year ago
- UNICEF
- Materials for kids, like pictures
- Chris Fabian & Erica Kochi
- super helpful
- doing the Uniwiki project aka MepeMepe where anyone can start any project for kids
- got distracted from making health bundles for OLPC
- Sj will bother them about that
- HIV/AIDS
- Water/sanitation/environment
- Water testing
- Kid-appropriate stuff
- WHO
- Sj has no contacts there now
- Not much stuff for kids ready to go
- They have materials but need to clear rights with the UN Printing Office
- Prevention kits for epidemics (e.g. cholera)
- OLPC has friends there who could look through their materials but their peeps don't have education of kids as a priority as far as Sj has found
- World Food Programme
- OLPC has friends & contacts & Matt but has not gotten any materials from them yet
- Agriculture
- Water testing manuals -- made for field workers but simple enough for amateurs
- PIH
- Jill Hackett works out of the Boston office
- Sj wanted her to do for health what EO Wilson Foundation did for biology
- She said they mainly had funds for AIDS but not other health stuff and ended up not finding the man-hours to do it
- Kits for health workers
- UNICEF
- Supportive peeps
- KSG
- Prof. Calestous Juma - health and sustainable agriculture, OLPC foundation board, helps pitch to international organizations
- Erica Frank at University of British Colombia
- Sent us a list of links to HIV/AIDS info and categorized which is appropriate for kids
- Sj has this spreadsheet
- Wants OLPC to send XOs to clinics for doctors to use (not currently an OLPC project)
- This would be more feasible if it were collaborative with other projects (PIH?) that have contact with more health clinics -- otherwise her project is not big enough & not collaborative enough to be a specific project of OLPC at this stage
- KSG
- from the Health wiki page
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- "We have lots of material" and high-level administrators there are interested in providing it to us. Similar interest from the Faculty of Dentistry (2007-05-16).
- Contact Mike Fletcher (mcfletch@vrplumber.com) for contact details.
- I have no idea what's going on with this partner right now. Mike?
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Health Ministries of target countries Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Thailand, United States, Uruguay
- Argentina - Ministerio de Salud de la Nación
- Brazil - Ministério da Saúde
- Libya - unkown
- Nigeria - Federal Ministry of Health
- Rwanda - unknown
- Thailand - Ministry of Public Health
- Uruguay - Ministerio de Salud Pública
- No materials from them yet. Nobody's made contact with them specifically for this yet.
- Health Ministries of target countries Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Thailand, United States, Uruguay
- Ways they help
- Free rights to books when possible
- Many organizations have materials for health workers but not for kids
- Have to overcome the legal barriers
- UNICEF has been extra awesome at getting over these
- Explain OLPC's mission
- No special licenses
- No copyrights
- Each country can decide for themselves how to make a handbook from the pool of materials appropriate for that country's needs
- Avdocacy & outreach
- Encouraging others to get laptops
- Free rights to books when possible
12/20/07 Skype with Van Ajemian, J.D., in LA + Eva & Spencer (Beehive School USA support)
Using laptops to disseminate flyers from WHO, WFP, etc.
Van on commercializing Our Stories: would consumers pay for something like a virtual safari tour? A micro-franchise idea
To do
Get Hesparian books onto crank as soon as I can get access. I don't have access yet so I temporarily posted a zipfile here 16:56, 21 December 2007 (EST) I took down the zipfile, but PDFs are available on the Hesperian website. Sj has the CDs of the InDesign files. 14:47, 25 December 2007 (EST)
We health folks should make a project page describing the active projects so potential collaborators can see what we're up to.
Made text for a future email message or flyer to ask for contributions of appropriate health content. This is, in a way, an iteration on request for content -- I don't feel a web form is the way to go.
Contact the people I wish I knew
Then contact PIH
Contact UNICEF peeps last