Dr. Chris Stout shares his experiences in global humanitarian work and the formation of a nonprofit aimed at facilitating humanitarian intervention, highlighting critical health issues faced by impoverished communities. The nonprofit focuses on providing tools and resources for both new nonprofits and individual projects, showcasing successful initiatives like a kindergarten in Tanzania and malaria prevention efforts. Stout emphasizes the importance of collaboration and open-sourcing humanitarian work to improve the efficacy of aid efforts.

1. Dr Chris Stout
Center for Global Initiatives
&
College of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago
Technologies, Organizations
and Tools for Global
Psychologists in
Humanitarian Intervention

2. Let me start with my story.

4. Books, Books, Books….

8. 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…

9. Halong Bay, Vietnam

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

11. ~30,000 children die each day due to
preventable diseases caused by poverty.

12. 500,000 children become blind each year
from malnutrition.

13. 1.8 million people die annually from
preventable diarrheal diseases.

14. 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

15. Sometimes one passion can
pivot to another

19. I was doing an increasing
amount of medical mission
work and being asked to grow
my involvement (“Accidental”
Humanitarian), and my mentor
said “you need to start a
501(c)3.” So I went to those I
knew to learn how they did it

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

22. Geek Corps
Ethan Zuckerman

23. Sustainable Sciences Institute

24. .
Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole
Shobha Arole, MD

25. Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD

26. Scojo Foundation.

27. Marie Charles, MD

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

30. I want to tell you about my experience
with starting a non-profit, the big
problem we experienced, and the pivot
we made…

31. So our pivot was to focus on one key
project, and share what we had learned
with others to help them accelerate and
reduce friction in doing humanitarian
work.
In other words, to open-source
humanitarian intervention!

32. The basic idea is that doing good work and
helping others shouldn’t be so hard…

33. We found that those folks generally
broke into two categories:
• Those wanting to start their own non-profit/NGO,
so we coach and teach how-to, and
• Those just wanting to do the work or a project, so
we help and act as a fiscal intermediary.

34. Regardless of which camp you are
in, the following tools may be of
interest, and they all are freely
available…

37. We also produced two books so far,
with royalties going to support the
Center as well as support our mission.

38. We developed a podcast to highlight
interesting people that all have a
humanitarian aspect to their lives or
work.

39. Outcomes of our key project partner
• We started a kindergarten in Tanzania.
• 40 kindergarten children were able to join primary school.
• It’s planned that 40 more children will be able to be registered once
they are 6 years old.
• 21 new students were able to be registered into the kindergarten.
• 22 orphan students supported by CGI passed their final national
exams in primary school and they have been selected to join public
secondary schools.
• 11 girls passed their final secondary school exams.
• 10 top scorers were selected by the Ministry of Education to join in the
special national government school program.

40. “73 Cents a Life”
• Huruma Designated Hospital and Kibosho Hospital deals with TB,
pneumonia, immunosuppression, diabetes, accidents/injuries,
hypertension, and one season, a particularly bad malaria epidemic.
• We were able to procure the proper medications needed, and at
follow-up, we learned that our partners had been able to treat and
thus help prevent over 4,100 people from dying of malaria.
• Twenty-eight percent of those infected were children under the age of
five — an even more vulnerable group.
• When calculating the cost, it averaged out to...
• 73 cents a life.

41. In terms third party cred:

42. What’s next?
Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention

43. THANKS
KEEP IN TOUCH
GO DO
For Having Me
DrChrisStout.com
CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Great Things…!