A conference at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, April 7-8, 2006<\/p>\n
### Michael Free, PATH<\/p>\n
* Prevention -> Detection -> Treatment<\/p>\n
* Focuses on Prevention<\/p>\n
* Vaccines are slow to grow -> Thermostable vaccines<\/p>\n
* Vaccines are limited -> New ways of delivering vaccines that are more efficient<\/p>\n
* Detection slow -> Point-of-care tests<\/p>\n
* Today, action often depends on the threat a disease poses to the developed world…<\/p>\n
### Aimee Gauthier, ITDP (transport policy for africa for health group)<\/p>\n
* Transport is a bottleneck of health care<\/p>\n
* Focus on HIV\/AIDS but better transport is common solution to many diseases<\/p>\n
* Repair\/Maintenance toughest\/$$ part of supplying cars<\/p>\n
* Bicycles appropriate up to distances of ~20k<\/p>\n
* “California Bike Coalition” bikes are used<\/p>\n
* Plus non-motorized ambulances (e.g. bike trailers)<\/p>\n
* “DOTS” program–people visit patients to make sure they’re taking their meds<\/p>\n
* Hospital ~50k away from average patient<\/p>\n
* Regional post ~23k<\/p>\n
* Pharmacy ~5k<\/p>\n
* Bicycles could bridge gaps between these levels<\/p>\n
### Prabhu Kandachar, Design Engineering, Delft University<\/p>\n
* “Distant diagnostics” – Delft student project, patients can transmit their sugar level 400mi to hospital for advice<\/p>\n
* “Infoproduct for pregnant women” – for illiterate women to self-diagnose and medicate<\/p>\n
* “Oral cancer screener” – portable laser screener for mouth\/throat cancer (caused by lots of tobacco chewing in starvation-prone areas)<\/p>\n
* “Tele-diagnosis system” – Udupi district, south India; patient meets with local nurse, who takes pictures of wounds and sends to specialists: “teledermatology”.<\/p>\n
* needs standard documentation format<\/p>\n
* specialists got annoyed because they no longer had direct patient contact; tough to stay motivated<\/p>\n
### Joanne Dunaway (UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n
* “Pandemic” doesn’t mean “infectious” or “contagious”–just “widespread”<\/p>\n
* 2.7% of global illness is due to indoor smoke from fires -> 1.6M deaths per year<\/p>\n
* Smoke-free or smoke-limiting cooking stoves to address this problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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