This afternoon held in store for me a fast, engaging conversation with Andrew Jesaitis, a former business manager and colleague at the Whitman Pioneer, who I hear might be getting back into the journalism and media industry. He’s worked for Goldman Sachs since graduating, but will be starting an internship with The Ski Journal in [...]
Video removed on the request of Village Health Works. Isaac Holeman chats with Deo, the Executive Director of Village Health Works in Burundi, about his clinic in Kigutu supported by Partners In Health, what the need is (Burundi is the poorest country in the world according to a 2006 World Bank report), and where he [...]
Reinventing Direct Action, 4 April 2009 View more presentations from danielbachhuber. I’m giving this presentation today as a part of a panel at a global health weekend my friend Alex Goodell spent a significant amount of time putting together. The conference is “You Can’t Crush a Louse with Only One Thumb: Integrating Biomedical & Sociocultural [...]
Thursday morning, Wayne, Karen, and I went down to the clinic in Arequipa to discuss OpenMRS, FrontlineSMS, and MobilizeMRS with Lilia, the director of the clinic, and Maris, the assistant director of the clinic. There were a few goals to the meeting: understand the rudimentary electronic medical records system (EMR or MRS) in place now, [...]
Day one in Arequipa: asking as many questions as I possibly could about how Health Bridges International‘s partner clinic in Alta Cayma operates. This research will serve two purposes: extensive background for how MobilizeMRS might be useful, as well as assessing resources for intra-clinic collaboration. A little background. The catchment area for the clinic in Alta Cayma [...]
In about a half hour, I’m headed on Continental Flight 308 to Houston, hopefully ending up in Lima at some point tonight. The plan as it stands now is to spend two months in Peru enjoying the summer and working on a few different projects. The first destination is Arequipa, in southern Peru, to do [...]