InSTEDD iLab Latin America: Working to Mitigate Social and Environmental Risks in Rio de Janeiro Part 1
We are thrilled to be able to share with you some of the work that the InSTEDD iLab Latin America has been doing to help empower young Brazilians living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to reduce the social and environmental risk factors in their communities.
Using Respect & Humility to Improve Health Technology: A CHW Perspective
In 2002, I got my first job out of college as a community health worker in Brooklyn. Born to a family of seven kids, we couldn’t afford university tuition and so I graduated with a $100k lump in my throat.
The iLab Southeast Asia: Filling the gap between what is needed and what works
Our work in Southeast Asia began in 2007, following Larry Brilliant’s TED prize in 2006, with the support of founding grants from Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation. These grants were originally intended to support the design and development of information…
VIDEO: Caricia presents on mHealth + HIV at AIDS 2012
At InSTEDD, we’ve been busy collecting evidence on the use of mHealth tools for HIV treatment and prevention. We presented some of our findings at last week’s International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC.
An AIDS Free Generation, mHealth, & A Renewed Promise
Last week, over 24,000 delegates from around the world gathered in Washington, DC for the 19th International AIDS Conference. It seemed like everyone was there: President Bill Clinton, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, HRH Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Bill Gates, Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg…
Malaria Day Zero Alert System
The Malaria Day Zero Alert System had the first pilot test in Cambodia on August 1. We are trying to use this new system instead of relying only on the paper based report because we know it has the potential to make reporting more accurate, faster and easier than the current paper based reporting system.
National Health Systems as a Fabric of Services
At InSTEDD right now we are involved on a wide spectrum of projects. Many of our projects are short and grassroots-driven, such as our recent work with UNICEF using aerial photography to map environmental vulnerabilities in the slums of Rio de Janiero (see blog from our iLab Latin America: Part 1 and Part 2)…
Our Modern Toolkit: Free and Open Source Tools for Social Impact
With social impact being our primary goal, we are proud to share our powerful modern tool belt with the rest of the world. InSTEDD’s suite of open source tools is a collection of technologies that have been used to support our focus areas of maternal/child health, infectious diseases, emergency management and local innovation/leadership.
Data: It’s not the technology, it’s about who uses it and how
In the past, we’ve blogged about some of the many lessons we’ve learned when it comes to working on projects that require some form of data collection. As a follow up, we’ve added more of what we’ve learned in the hopes that it will help you better deal with similar situations.