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Making it Easier to
Make a Difference in the World
Dr Chris StoutCenter for Global Initiatives &
College of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago
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Who is in the audience today…?
Clinicians…?
Academics…?
Grad students….?
Early Career…?
Anyone else….?
Folks that just like to raise their hands…?
Today we’re going to discuss making a Difference in the World.
You already do. Thank you.
But what if you could scale?
Let me start with my story.
I didn’t start off all cool and hip
Books, Books, Books….
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…
Halong Bay, Vietnam
“Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that are the result of neglect in poverty stricken communities.
As for prevalence…
~30,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases caused by poverty.
500,000 children become blind each year from malnutrition.
1.8 million people die annually from preventable diarrheal diseases.
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
Sometimes one passion can pivot to another
Let me introduce you to some folks that have
found out why…
William Rosenblatt, MD
REcovered
Medical
Equipment
Developing
Y (world)
Sabriye Tenberken & Paul Kronenberg
ErikWeihenmayer
International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
Soweto, South Africa
Geek CorpsEthan Zuckerman
Sustainable Sciences Institute
.
Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole
Shobha Arole, MD
Infant Mortality Rate Reduction
86.36%
Maternal Health
Antenatal Care
Safe Delivery
Family Planning
0.5%
<0.5%
<1.0%
100%
100%
65%
Children under 5
Immun.(DPT, polio)
Malnutr. (wt for age)
0.5%
40%
87%
<1%
TB (prev./1000) 18 1.2
Changes in Health
Indicators (1971-2006)
TB patients treated 9,621
Tube-wells for safe
drinking water198
Plant nurseries – villages 203
Check dams 223
Houses built for poor people
283
Women involved in credit program
6,064
Training in Community-Based Health (since 1983)
Persons from India
Persons from other countries
17,661
1,911
Overview of Activities
(1970 – 2006)
Institute for OneWorld HealthVictoria Hale, PhD
Scojo Foundation.
Marie Charles, MD
Scojo Foundation.
Jordan Kassalow, MD
So, I learned there is no fixed set of rules,
no set path, that you have to follow.
Mother Theresa once said:
“If you cannot feed one-hundred,
then feed just one.”
Sometimes you can at least solve
part of the problem….
So I have been doing some
experimenting….
What if you could “Open Source”
Humanitarian Intervention…?
What would it look like?
Well,
here’s one option…
I was always frustrated with the disconnect of getting helpful
information and tools to those that needed it.
Accelerants…It’s about:
Results…It’s about:
A kindergarten is born
CollaborationsIt’s about:
Wanna know what I think is even cooler…?
Just over a month later,
John Landy Aus shaved almost two seconds off Bannister’s time.
And you know what?
Over the course of the following few years, 19 others ran sub-4 minute miles.
19..!
How come?
What took so long?
It’s my hope that
I may have been able
to speed you up…!
THANKS
KEEP IN TOUCH
GO DO
For Having Me
DrChrisStout.com
Great Things…!