User:Anna B

Summary of me

• Helping coordinate content pertaining to health
  • safe drinking water
  • sanitation & hygene
  • 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

I wish I knew you

• Mitchell N. Charity
• Seth Woodworth
• David Greisen
• Pascal Scheffers
• Matt Keller -- worked for World Food Programme directly, now Europe coordinator for OLPC through World Food Programme

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 already participating
  • UNICEF
    • Materials for kids, like pictures
  • WHO
    • Prevention kits for epidemics (e.g. cholera)
  • World Food Programme
    • Agriculture
    • Water testing manuals -- made for field workers but simple enough for amateurs
  • PIH
    • Kits for health workers
    • Based here in Boston
  • KSG
    • Prof. Calestous Juma - health and sustainable agriculture, OLPC foundation board, helps pitch to international organizations
  • 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.

• • 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

• 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