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Join this year’s ghdLAB students for a lively, interactive poster session to
learn about their experience on the front lines of global health delivery.

Thursday, May 3rd
11:30 am to 1 pm
E62 Lobby

 

This semester, students in MIT Sloan’s action-based class on
global health delivery worked with five innovative organizations:

With Daktari, a Cambridge-based for-profit diagnostics startup, a team investigated the market for maternal health diagnostics in Botswana to map needs and opportunities for new products and approaches for improving maternal and fetal health.

In a small health clinic in rural Chebaiywa, near Eldoret, Western Kenya, a team studied processes, needs, and capabilities to help plan the organization’s move from their current lack of medical records to an electronic OpenMRS system to serve a low-income community more effectively.

To assess the hybrid business model of VidaGas/VillageReach, a team assessed finances and operations for a novel partnership connecting energy, supply chains, vaccines and other essential health supplies and economic development in northern Mozambique.

Another team explored mHealth and efficiency innovations for LifeSpring, a chain of maternal hospitals in Hyderabad seeking to further improve their outreach and community nursing.

To assess income generation strategies for long-term HIV/AIDS patients via Massachusetts General Hospital and Mbarara University of Science and Technology’s Sustainable Household Income Project in Mbarara, Western Uganda, a team worked on financial plans and strategies for combining field research and poverty alleviation.

Questions or inquiries? Email ghd.projects.lab@mit.edu

 

 

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Exploring Mobile Data Collection and Maternal Health in Hyderabad

April 4, 2012

Dateline: March 2012 Location: Hyderabad, India by Kate Krontiris and Lina Sayed Kate Krontiris is a graduate student of public policy and business at the Harvard Kennedy School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.  Lina Sayed is a second-year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  They are students of Global Health [...]

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Notes from the classroom: A look ahead at my upcoming ghdLAB trip to Mozambique

March 22, 2012

Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: Deborah Hsieh Hola! The days are counting down until we arrive in Mozambique! Where do I fit if I care about global health, but don’t have medical training? -          In class, one of the standout moments was hearing from Bill Rodriguez. On one hand, he acknowledged the need [...]

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Notes from the classroom: Exploring the role of energy infrastructure in health care delivery

March 22, 2012

Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: MIT Sloan ghdLAB students What would your life be like without a refrigerator, or a stovetop, or somewhere to charge your cell phone? Sitting in Cambridge, Massachusetts it is practically impossible to imagine. While talk of an energy crisis peppers our discussions, our electrified homes and gadgets are [...]

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Notes from the classroom: Thoughts on my upcoming ghdLAB trip and the role of electronic medical records in rural clinics

March 22, 2012

Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by David Hilliard In less than a week, I leave to work on a project in a rural health center in Kenya!!  My teammate, Pipe, and I are extremely excited to touch ground next week and put our research to work.  We are visiting three host sites over the [...]

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Evaluating an income generation project linked to healthcare in Uganda

March 21, 2012

Dateline: Mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by Marisa Gerla & Mary Anito Our ghdLab project has officially kicked-off and we’re starting to get a better idea of what we will be focusing on.  This semester we will we working with the Sustainable Housing Initiative Project, or SHIP, in Mbarara, Uganda, which is a partnership with [...]

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Notes from the classroom: What I’m looking forward to on my upcoming trip to Kenya

March 21, 2012

Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by Thapana “Pipe” Chairoj After realizing how much impact our team could potentially make for our host organization in the long-run, I became excited to put our knowledge and expertise into practice. Currently without any medical record system, Chebaiywa Health Center (CHC) has an ambitious goal of implementing OpenMRS [...]

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PIH’s Ophelia Dahl lends some advice to our team of MBAs

February 24, 2012

Dateline: February 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: ghdLAB students Last week, MIT’s ghdLAB Special Projects team had the great opportunity to chat with Ophelia Dahl, the Executive Director of Partners in Health.  The Partners in Health organization was started by Ophelia and the legendary Paul Farmer and as of today has 15,000 employees in 20 [...]

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