1. Vineet Sinay’s Presentation
Diseases impacting underserved Americans
Utilize the power of health education to change the present scenario
50 dollar budget - start in a week
Goal: start at grass-root
Identify needs: 1) Eat better – exert no extra cost
 Create food substitution
2) Bettering people exercise’s habit
-> Introduce people to this whole new realm of regular exercise
Vietnamese’s culture – vietnamese’s source – high in salt – lead to high blood pressure
-> Solution : Reduce the amount of salt – create new sauce
People are concern about their health – what is missing is simply health education
Track health resources – 35 percent improvement in people
Founding a heath-education related org is necessary because of the absence of those orgs
throughout the country
Work with people from across the boards, translators, tailor to specific people, train people to
become health educators
Different people have different needs, having proximity to the clinic is really important
Social change in the box kit – provide every information/resources needed
Two projects in hand
Use touch-screen computer – improve user-to-user interaction – receive money from Dalai Lama
Foundation
Using texting-technology-provide free clinics
Challenges
No non-profit status
No full-time staff
Fundraising
One Hundred Thousand Cheeks
Goals
To register 100000 people for DNA identification(cheek swabbed) by Spring 2011
Get as many people in bone marrow registry
Remove the disparity of the success rate between ethnic groups to find the matching bone
marrow
Find innovative solutions to the problem
OpenIDEO – people are posting solutions to the problems
Utilize power of college-network
Crowdsourcing