9. “Now we will have “a little hospital when we go to the villages”.
10. Sustainable Dissemination Opportunity: Have suite of successful global health technologies Generating unsolicited consumer demand Goals: Maximize dissemination in low-resourcecommunities Ensure sustainable dissemination Educate students Highlight Rice’s role in development
11. Challenge To enable the technologies to reach a large population, widespread sustainable dissemination through a commercial model is required.
16. Rwanda Experience Key questions that teams worked to answer: What is the perceived value of the device? What is the need in this country? What is a reasonable price point? What are existing medical device distribution channels in Rwanda? What are the challenges with importing products into Rwanda? What is the manufacturing capacity in Rwanda? Who are potential partners in Rwanda?
17. Immediate Response Each of the technologies had an excellent reception, with physicians, Ministry of Health and other stakeholders interested in having access to them commercially. Teams developed a good understanding of regulatory hurdles, government procurement processes and potential manufacturing within Rwanda. Most technologies would need a bigger market than the one but Rwanda was an excellent test- bed for the teams.
19. ‘On their way to success’ story- CPAP Winner- Social Ventures Award -Rice Business Plan Competition NCIIA e-Team grant Clinical Study in late planning stages
20. A word from a student Lessons Learned Surprises Educational Value Next Steps
21. Ongoing Challenges Medical technologies and regulatory challenges Clinical trials costly Moving from low numbers of laboratory built prototypes to scalable manufacturing “Valley of Death” for moving academic innovations is magnified for product that has small market with lower opportunity to capitalize
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For 1/3 of the world, living in extreme poverty, the lab often looks like this. Medical brigade teams like this one in Haiti operated by Project MediShare travel to rural areas when roads are passable. They see patients until their supplies run out. Patients wait hours in line to attend outdoor clinics often held under a tree. Only the most minimal diagnostic services are available and patients are often treated on the basis of symptoms alone. It is difficult to determine who should be referred to the city for more advanced care.
Often, no technology in the NICU
Rice Sociology major Kelly O’Connor was able to use the pack to transform the lab capabilities in the mobile rural outreach clinics in Haiti.When Kelly was in Haiti, she found that the electrical centrifuge used to test whether patients are anemic often broke down. This piece of equipment is one of the heaviest and, at $300, is one of the most expensive items in the pack. When Kelly returned to Rice she worked with a team of students to develop a simple alternative which did not require electrical power.
“There were the bili-lights, propped on top of the wooden incubators. I felt honored that the lights I helped make were being used. It was surreal to actually see babies under the bili-lights I made last summer. I thought about it, dreamed about it, but I couldn’t believe I was actually seeing it in a hospital setting rather than in a research lab.” Yiwen’s blogThis is the fire that is lit when students have the chance to work on challenging projects that have the potential to improve health. This summer Yiwen is back in Malawi and will have the wonderful opportunity to work directly with Dr. Molyneux.
