This presentation was an invited address at the LA Campus of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology for a faculty workshop on problem solving.

1. Solving Problems at the
Global Level:
What Psychologists can Teach
and What We can Learn
Chris E. Stout
Managing Director, Center for Global Initiatives
College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago

2. Please note that this is a January 2014 presentation, and
while you can see most of what was displayed, you
cannot hear what I said, and I wish you could.
You may reach me at http://about.me/DrChrisStout
if I may be of help to you in your work.
Cheers,
Chris

5. A bat and a ball cost
$1.10 in total.
The bat costs $1 more
than the ball.
How much does the
ball cost?

8. let:
x = price of ball,
(x+1) = price of bat
(x+1)+x = 1.10
2x = 1.10 - 1
2x = 0.10
x = 0.10 / 2
x = 0.05

16. BLUE

20. Some of the best solutions are clever

22. Some of the best solutions are clever
and funny

27. Books, Books, Books….

31. How do you
train soldiers to
be Peacekeepers?

33. The Copenhagen
Declaration
Sustainable
Development and
Psychology

36. Goethe said,
Knowing is not enough,
we must…

38. Soweto, South Africa

40. My epiphanies.

44. I then learned a lot about the different
aspects of some very creative
problem solving,
and I want to share what
I learned with you…

45. REcovered
Medical
Equipment
Developing
Y (world)
William Rosenblatt, MD

46. I learned that when you seek
to solve one problem,
you may be able to solve others
along with it.

47. Sabriye Tenberken &
Paul Kronenberg

48. Erik
Weihenmayer

49. I learned that when you seek
to solve one problem,
you may need to develop news tools.

50. International Institute for
Social Entrepreneurs

51. I learned that once you’ve
solved one problem,
you may want to make it scale.

52. Geek Corps
Ethan Zuckerman

53. I learned that when one
problem is fixed,
you may need to also solve another
problem that results from it.

54. Sustainable Sciences Institute

55. I learned that when one
problem is fixed,
you may need to combine seemingly
divergent aspects in new ways.

56. Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole
.
Shobha Arole, MD

57. Changes in Health
Indicators (1971-2006)
Overview of Activities
(1970 – 2006)
TB patients treated
Infant Mortality Rate
Reduction
Maternal Health
Antenatal Care
Safe Delivery
Family Planning
86.36%
Tube-wells for safe
drinking water
9,621
198
Plant nurseries – villages
100%
<0.5% 100%
<1.0%
65%
Children under 5
Immun.(DPT, polio)
0.5%
40%
<1%
TB (prev./1000)
18
1.2
223
Houses built for poor people
283
6,064
87%
Malnutr. (wt for age)
Check dams
Women involved in credit
program
0.5%
203
Training in Community-Based
Health (since 1983)
Persons from India
Persons from other countries
17,661
1,911

58. I learned that in solving a
problem,
integrating solutions and measuring
outcomes is important.

59. Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD

60. I learned that in solving a
problem,
that sometimes no good deed goes
unpunished.

61. Marie Charles, MD

62. I learned that in solving a
problem,
that systems and organization
help maintain sustainability.

63. Bosnia

64. I learned that in solving a
problem,
that former ways of thinking may not
always work.

65. Jennifer Staple-Clark

66. I learned that in solving a
problem,
that being “too young, too naive, or
too busy” don’t necessarily apply.

67. Witness.

68. I learned from Gillian Caldwell that
a word is worth 1/1000th of a picture…

69. Witness

70. Mary Fabri, PsyD

71. I learned that solving a
problem,
can result from bringing together
the formerly disparate.

72. Scojo Foundation.

73. I learned that in solving a
problem,
two opposites can be brought together.

75. I learned that in solving a
problem,
social justice can result
from criminal justice.

77. I learned that in solving a
problem,
what seems a little, can mean a lot.

78. Mother Theresa once said:
“If you cannot feed one-hundred,
then feed just one.”

80. And now for something
completely different—how I have
tried to create a structure…

82. Fasten your seat belt, next stop:
The Amazon

83. Amazon…

84. Amazon...

85. Amazon…

86. Amazon…

87. Amazon

88. Hey, weren’t you here last week…?
Sometimes you don’t know
what you don’t know.

90. Adjust your seat belt, next stop:
Bolivia

91. Bolivian Prisons (and Clark)

96. Sometimes you can at least solve
part of the problem….

98. I was always frustrated with the
disconnect of getting helpful
information and tools to those
that needed it.

99. So I have been doing some
experimenting….

107. Curated Library

108. Problem
solving is
about
tech…

113. Problem solving is about:
Accelerants…

115. Problem solving is about:
Results…

116. A kindergarten is born

121. Problem solving is about:
Collaborations

128. Thank you for what you do,
and
please be in touch if I can be of help…
visit DrChrisStout.com