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Health Research in Cameroon with EpiSurveyor
Health researchers in Cameroon, led by Dr. Mbah Patrick Okwen (health consultant to the Netherlands Development Organization) have been using EpiSurveyor for the last few years to collect critical data concerning a variety of topics including child nutritional status monitoring, community mutual health organizations, investigating governance at hospitals, and watershed and grazing pastures mapping to reduce water contamination and conflict. Without the need for any international consultants!
EpiSurveyor Data Uploading Hits 10,000 Records Per Month!
- More than 1300 users have signed up at www.episurveyor.org since June '09 (we're now adding about 120 per month at a pretty constant rate)
- Users are uploading forms from mobile phones at the rate of 10,000 per month and accelerating (see graph)
Haiti Hospital Bed Availability & EpiSurveyor
Been working with a variety of groups including HHS and PAHO to develop a system to track available bedspace in healthcare facilities in Haiti, so that clinicians in small clinics who have patients needing a higher level of care. Very, very challenging given that there is no single group that is taking responsibility for tracking something like that.
Joel Selanikio
Joel Selanikio
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Named by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful innovators of 2009, Joel Selanikio is a winner of the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare IT. His work has been reported on by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and the Washington Post, among others. He is a sought-after speaker, and a faculty member of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
A practicing pediatrician, former Wall Street computer consultant, and former CDC epidemiologist with a passion for combining technology and public health to address inequities in developing countries, Dr. Selanikio leads DataDyne.org's pioneering efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health and international development, including the award-winning EpiSurveyor mobile data collection project.
In his former role as an officer of the Public Health Service, Dr. Selanikio served as the Chief of Operations for the HHS Secretary's Emergency Command Center in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2005, he was given the Haverford Award for Humanitarian Service for his work in treating tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia (for which he was profiled in the Washington Post).
Dr. Selanikio holds a bachelor's degree from Haverford College, and an MD from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship of the CDC. He continues to practice clinical pediatrics both as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and on the Emergency Response Team of the International Rescue Committee, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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