Educational Program

Franchise Model for India and Africa Expansion

Quality improvement in public and proprietary clinics

Expanding the successful e-voucher system to improve malaria prevention and fight new globalhealth threats through innovative health partnerships and mobile phone technology in Tanzania

Worldwide, 1.1 billion people practice open defecation, resulting in diarrheal diseases – a leading cause of death among children under five.  This is a major problem among rural Tanzania’s Maasai people.  This project will engage and train local youth and community members in scientific data collection to guide development of locally conceived, implemented and evaluated sanitation solutions to open defecation.

The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Network seeks to connect and support frontline workers, researchers and policy-makers in delivering and developing mental health and psychosocial support services for individuals and communities affected by crises across the globe.

Many of the war-scarred citizens of Uganda’s northeastern Soroti district (population 322,000) suffer mental health problems. However, because mental health is accorded low priority by government and other agencies, people in need of help today resort to uninformed traditional and faith healers.

Untreated depression in pregnant women is of particular concern, due to its adverse effects on the health of the infant. The economic burden of depression in pregnant and postnatal women goes beyond the cost of treating depression itself. The scope and magnitude of the problem is magnified in humanitarian crisis settings. Scaling up existing and proven interventions for depression is slowed down by the costs, equity and quality concerns, along with service delivery issues. The lack of skilled specialists is another major barrier.

The project tests the creation of a social enterprise that will enable the delivery of alternative mental health treatment to children in the Philippines with mood disorders. This enterprise, ultimately national in scope, will hire and train para-professional staff, and provide treatment on a sliding scale of payments in which poorer clients would pay very little for their care. As a first step, in a trial to be carried out by a team at the Bulatao Center for Psychology Services at Ateneo de Manila University, led by Dr.

Training for health emergencies is fragmented and non-standardized. Humanitarian organizations do not engage the 95% of field-based practitioners nor include an approach to monitoring the application of skills/knowledge. The Humanitarian Training Initiative in partnership with the World Health Organization will be the first to take globally recognized competencies and evidence-based curriculum to standardize training globally. E-Learning modules linked to low-cost mobile technologies will provide an accessible product to the target audience.

This project will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based motivational interviewing HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) intervention at internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Leogane, Haiti. Women from IDP camps will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI intervention to women in IDP camps working in collaboration with NEGES, a women’s peanut butter cooperative. Follow Carmen Logie on Twitter @carmenlogie"