making it easier to make a difference in the world

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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Clinicians…?

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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

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Great Things…!