Dr. Chris Stout discusses the impact of poverty-related diseases and the importance of humanitarian efforts in addressing these issues. He highlights initiatives and strategies, including economic development and education, to transform health indicators in impoverished communities. Stout encourages collaboration and the sharing of resources to enhance humanitarian interventions and make a significant difference in the world.

1. Making it Easier to
Make a Difference in the World
Dr Chris Stout
Center for Global Initiatives &
College of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago

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4. Who is in the audience today…?
Clinicians…?
Academics…?
Grad students….?
Early Career…?
Anyone else….?
Folks that just like to raise their hands…?

5. Today we’re going to discuss making a
Difference in the World.
You already do. Thank you.
But what if you could scale?

6. Let me start with my story.

8. I didn’t start off all cool and hip

10. Books, Books, Books….

14. While the academic side was important
(and great), I wanted to go into the
field.
On my first international medical
mission, I saw what the diseases of
poverty look like…

15. Halong Bay, Vietnam

16. “Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that
are the result of neglect in poverty
stricken communities.
As for prevalence…

17. ~30,000 children die each day due to
preventable diseases caused by poverty.

18. 500,000 children become blind each year
from malnutrition.

19. 1.8 million people die annually from
preventable diarrheal diseases.

20. While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention
strategies include:
Economic development
Ending military conflict
Developing education models – especially for females
Technology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g.,
markets for goods)
Fostering sustainable development

21. Sometimes one passion can
pivot to another

25. Let me introduce you to
some folks that have
found out why…

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

28. Sabriye Tenberken &
Paul Kronenberg

29. Erik
Weihenmayer

30. International Institute for
Social Entrepreneurs

31. Soweto, South Africa

33. Geek Corps
Ethan Zuckerman

34. Sustainable Sciences Institute

35. .
Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole
Shobha Arole, MD

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

37. Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD

38. Scojo Foundation.

39. Marie Charles, MD

40. Scojo Foundation.
Jordan Kassalow, MD

41. So, I learned there is no fixed set of rules,
no set path, that you have to follow.

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

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

45. So I have been doing some
experimenting….

46. What if you could “Open Source”
Humanitarian Intervention…?

47. What would it look like?

49. Well,
here’s one option…

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

63. Accelerants…
It’s about:

65. Results…
It’s about:

66. A kindergarten is born

69. Collaborations
It’s about:

78. Wanna know what I think is even
cooler…?

79. Just over a month later,
John Landy Aus shaved almost two
seconds off Bannister’s time.
And you know what?

80. Over the course of the following few
years, 19 others ran sub-4 minute miles.
19..!

81. How come?
What took so long?

83. It’s my hope that
I may have been able
to speed you up…!

85. THANKS
KEEP IN TOUCH
GO DO
For Having Me
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Great Things…!