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== Summary of me ==
A '''fiend'''.

* 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 [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfci.harvard.edu%2F&ei=ZKlpR5qlDaiMeqTr_K0K&usg=AFQjCNHEZpvT9lGMq4_Bqp2R7--XrI4D0A&sig2=Jpe4WenNpUD7MCtbwY2krg Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.]

* Water/sanitation experience
** Worked on [http://www.sodis.ch/ solar water disinfection (SoDis)] through MIT [http://web.mit.edu/d-lab/ D-Lab] and [http://web.mit.edu/ideas/www/ IDEAS] developing a collapsible plastic bag alternative to soda bottles
** Performed materials analysis (porosimetry, electron microscopy) on [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pottersforpeace.org%2F&ei=n6tpR8_nFJ_qecKYvbcK&usg=AFQjCNGzdZD4dGd32_6mXSRKA7MfM8o7Ig&sig2=CxCOqXq0HNDP2Vke-SSHxA 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 [http://ems.mit.edu MIT Ambulance] since 2002
** Host a weekly radio talk show called [http://invivo.mypodcast.com/ In Vivo] on [http://wmbr.mit.edu/ WMBR 88.1FM]
** [[User:dilinger|Dilinger]] and I are about to become organic beekeepers!

== I wish I knew you ==

* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:MitchellNCharity Mitchell N. Charity]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sethwoodworth Seth Woodworth]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Davidgreisen David Greisen]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Pascal 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

* Supportive peeps
** KSG
*** Prof. Calestous Juma - health and sustainable agriculture, OLPC foundation board, helps pitch to international organizations
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Frank 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

* from the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health#Suggested_Partners Health wiki page]

** [http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/ 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?

** Health Ministries of target countries {{Status green countries}}
*** Argentina - [http://www.msal.gov.ar/ Ministerio de Salud de la Nación]
*** Brazil - [http://www.saude.gov.br/ Ministério da Saúde]
*** Libya - ''unkown''
*** Nigeria - [http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/fed_min_health.aspx Federal Ministry of Health]
*** Rwanda - ''unknown''
*** Thailand - [http://www.moph.go.th/ Ministry of Public Health]
*** Uruguay - [http://www.msp.gub.uy/ Ministerio de Salud Pública]
*** No materials from them yet. Nobody's made contact with them specifically for this yet.

* 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

== 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 [http://web.mit.edu/fiend/Public/OLPC/ 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 [[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.


Contact the people I wish I knew

Then contact PIH

Contact UNICEF peeps last

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
  • Languages
    • Spanish (fluent)
    • Russian (native speaker)

I wish I knew you

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
  • 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
    • 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?
  • 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

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