2015 July Tools for Change CGI Newsletter

1. Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the CGI Newsletter Dr. Chris Stout, Editor Volume II, Number 7, July 2015 _____News, Tools, Reports and Shout-Outs______ News from Tanzania As you may know CGI has had a long running partnership with friends in Tanzania. We helped to found a kindergarten there in 2005. Here’s the latest report from Fr. Aloyce Urio: “I would like to share with you the progress of the kindergarten school. The children are doing fine. Those who were very tired and very slow are now very active in the class. They are doing very well and they are all having school uniforms. They also get porridge in the afternoon. They have two teachers. Again thank you very much for your support. Many people here are deeply touched when they see the children the way they are doing in comparison with the past when they were very tired during the first day they reported to our kindergarten.” To learn more: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/projects_Tanzania.cfm 1

2. Please check out my June LinkedIn Influencer post on “The State of Your Industry” topic for June: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state- philanthropy-finding-hope-among-disaster- aid-dr-chris-stout?trk=hp-feed-article-photo _____Award, Grant, Funding, & Job Opportunities_____ Exciting new opportunity for U.S. based psychologists! The APA’s MOU travel grant program is designed to promote collaboration and exchange among U.S. based APA members and members of those national psychology associations with which APA has a formal agreement (Memorandum of Understanding). Travel with colleagues to Colombia or Mexico as part of the 2015 Inaugural APA- MOU Partner Collaboration and Exchange program. For more information please visit: http://www.apa.org/about/awards/mou-travel-grant.aspx. 2

3. Calling all innovators and entrepreneurs! Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) and USAID Jordan Mission’s Jordan Competitiveness Program are hosting a live pitch competition on August 26th in Amman, Jordan. Selected innovators will pitch their development solution to be considered for a grant ranging from $100K to $1,500,000+ USD. This event will include a live audience with other potential investors and relevant stakeholders. Who is Eligible for the DIV:LIVE Competition The DIV competition looks for applications from any type of organization (non-profit, for-profit, social enterprise, academic institution, or individual) working in any sector and any country. DIV:LIVE seeks applicants focused, but not limited to, to solutions in Jordan and the MENA region. Applicants should be willing and available to travel to the DIV:LIVE event in Jordan on August 26 for the final round of competition. (Note that travel and accommodation costs are not covered by DIV or USAID). What will DIV:LIVE Look For DIV seeks innovations that aims to solve the world’s most intractable development challenges through demonstrated impact and cost-effectiveness. See our portfolio of grantees for more information. How to Apply and Compete for Funding Step 1: Review DIV’s call for proposals to assess if your innovation is a good fit for DIV. Step 2: Complete a brief DIV application by July 10. Competitive applicants may also compile additional information* that best showcases their innovation. Suggestions include: Pitch deck Pro-forma financial statements and/or model Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Product specifications 3

4. Organization chart Biographies of major personnel and their CVs Theory of change framework/logic model Monitoring and evaluation plan Step 3: Send this application and any additional materials to DIVapplications@usaid.gov by July 10. Use the subject “DIV:LIVE.” Step 4: The DIV team will evaluate your application materials based on the criteria outlined in DIV’s call for proposals. The most promising development solutions will be invited to the DIV:LIVE competition on August 26th in Amman, Jordan. Step 5: If invited to the DIV:LIVE event, you will pitch your solution to a panel of experts. Multiple winners of DIV awards can be selected. For more info see http://www.usaid.gov/div/live-jordan IDEO Fortnight is a 2-week intensive internship during the months of August and September This year Fortnight Cambridge will ask you to collaborate with another fortnighter to launch your project within the studio and/or Cambridge, Massachusetts. This year we are asking for submissions around the creative theme of Call & Response with the intention of launching something, even a rough prototype, at the end of your two week project. You’ll get to see how people respond to your idea as you create it in the spirit of immediate feedback and impact! Do you have a new thought that you want to get out in the world? A new picture or sound that everyone needs to hear? Maybe new forms of eating, drinking and communicating that need to be shared with a neighbor. This year is about coming up with an artistic experiment that, when released, can be built upon, iterated and launched out. Applications will be accepted through June 14th. We will go through your proposals and pair you up with a like-minded Fortnighter as a co-conspirator. We will give you one month to get your ducks in a row and then two weeks to join IDEO Cambridge to contribute daily releases that culminate in a final launch event. Of course if you already have a co-conspirator in mind please apply together! To apply please submit your resume, portfolio, availability during the months of August and September, and your project idea using the theme of call and response. We think in pictures, so please tell us about your project idea using visuals. Wild ideas are not only encouraged but preferred! For more info see http://fortnightcambridge.ideo.com/ 4

5. Assistant Director, Social Enterprise Institute, University of Chicago The Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched in March 2012 to support growing interest among faculty, students and alumni to understand and engage with the evolving set of institutions addressing social problems. In particular, SEI has two main objectives: furthering research on how institutions help to solve social problems and supporting the aspirations of Chicago Booth students and alumni to impact social issues. This two pronged approach is based on our belief that both leadership on the ground and rigorous academic research are critical to solving the complex social problems our society faces, and that Chicago Booth can play an important role in both. Day to day, SEI staff coordinate and support activities related to social enterprise and the social sector within Booth and the University, both those organized directly by SEI and those managed by other groups such as student groups, other Booth departments or other parts of the University. Unit Job Summary Assistant Director, Social Enterprise Initiative: Responsibilities of the Assistant Director include event planning, program support, student relationships, and logistics. This position is involved in the creation, planning, and execution of both established and new programs. The Assistant Director will be responsible for owning social entrepreneurship as a key strategic area for SEI's growth. This includes, but is not limited to the following responsibilities: >Manage all aspects of the Social New Venture Challenge, including design and execution of a year- long calendar of events and programs, coordination of application and decision process, oversight of New Social Venture course logistics, recruitment and management of outside judges, and planning and execution of the SNVC Finals event. >Manage Social Entrepreneur in Residence program, including establishing his/her year-long calendar and ensuring student awareness. >Continue to grow SEI's relationship with cross-campus departments and individuals, act as liaison for all social entrepreneurship programs and inquiries, most commonly with the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Chicago Innovation Exchange, and Harris/SSA. >Build resources offerings to both student and alumni social entrepreneurs; continue to design new programs and promote new resources to these important audiences, ultimately helping to build the Booth social entrepreneurship community. The Assistant Director will also be responsible for all programs and events geared towards student groups related to social impact. This includes, but is not limited to supporting the nine plus student groups that comprise the Social Impact Council including planning and facilitation of quarterly meetings and acting as their liaison to SEI for resources and support, as well as planning and executing a year-long series of monthly lunch and learns and happy hours to support student groups and interests. 5

6. For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/ The successful candidate will work primarily on the ‘Peace Beyond Borders’ Programme that we are implementing in cooperation with Oxfam and a consortium of national and international partners in the Great Lakes Region. The Programme is entering its third phase, during which a Regional Roadmap to Peace will be rolled out in several areas in Burundi, the DRC and Rwanda according to a conflict transformation approach. IW and Oxfam will design and implement advocacy strategies for the Roadmap with the AU, UN, EU and other key actors. For more info on the vacancy and how to apply: http://www.impunitywatch.org/html/index.php?alineaID=221 International Crisis Group, Head of Communications and Outreach, North America Reporting to the Director of Communications and Outreach in Brussels, this position serves as the lead communications expert in North America. Preferably based in New York, but possibly in Washington DC, the successful candidate will assist in expanding Crisis Group’s global profile and influence to raise our profile and impact among key North American constituencies including policy-makers, media, opinion-leaders, philanthropists and business. Application procedure: Please send applications in English by email before 1 July 2015 to open.positions@crisisgroup.org, including "Head of Communications & Outreach, North America" in the subject line and your cover letter, CV and details of three references in attachment. Please note that only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted. For more information, see http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/employment/careers/open-positio... 6

7. TEDx Content Coordinator New York, NY, United States TED is seeking a Content Coordinator to join the TEDx team and to help us spread ideas from our massive and rapidly growing library of TEDx Talks. The focus of this role is to watch and review the talks filmed at TEDx events worldwide – with an eye toward identifying excellent talks, important ideas, and emerging trends. This coordinator will work directly with the Digital Media Manager to discover and package the best TEDx talks to highlight across TED media platforms, including TED.com, and our ideas blog (ideas.ted.com). Over the last five years, the TEDx program has grown rapidly, enabling more than 13000 independently organized events in more than 170 countries. These events range from highly produced gatherings in world capitals to small events in rural communities. Talks at these events are filmed and posted online. As a result, there are now more than 60,000 TEDx talks on YouTube, and they were viewed 220M times last year; less than half of these were delivered in English. At this stage, we need a highly organized, globally minded video content curation team to keep up with the growth and to maximize the impact of these ideas from around the world. See http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qC69Vf... Call for Applications, ASEAN Impact Challenge, a regional challenge designed for impact-driven social innovators and entrepreneurs within the ASEAN region ASEAN Impact Challenge is a regional challenge designed for impact-driven social innovators and entrepreneurs within the ASEAN region. Guided by the topic ‘Sustainable Communities, Resilient Nations’, changemakers will be challenged to find ambitious solutions and create innovations to pressing community, social and environmental issues within the region. Two innovations from each ASEAN country with a proven model and the potential to scale will be given the opportunity to pitch their revolutionary initiatives to a group of entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers during the 1ASEAN Entrepreneurship Summit held in Kuala Lumpur in November. This challenge is supported by the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia and is an initiative under Malaysia’s National Blue Ocean Strategy. For more info see http://www.aseanimpactchallenge.org/about.php#asean_impact_challenge 7

8. Echoing Green, Director, Work on Purpose, NY Echoing Green is seeking a bold thinker and action- oriented leader to oversee the strategy and implementation of Work on Purpose, ensuring the program successfully achieves its objectives and advances Echoing Green’s mission. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of and passion for human development and a demonstrated commitment to social impact. S/he will have a communications-oriented perspective on program development and will be an exceptional communicator with a proven ability to write and speak persuasively to a variety of audiences. In addition, s/he will be a detail-oriented project manager with an ability to prioritize and execute with efficiency and a strong sense of urgency. To apply: https://leaderfit.catsone.com/careers/index.php?m=portal&a=apply&jobOrderID=5568866&portalI D=20424&ref=indeed Nominations for the Human Rights Tulip 2015 are now open. The Human Rights Tulip is an award given by the Dutch government. Every year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awards the Human Rights Tulip to a human rights defender who promotes and supports human rights in innovative ways. Hivos has been selected to help guide the selection process and will support the winner to further develop and scale up their innovation. You are invited to put forward a person or organisation as a candidate between June 15 and July 15, 2015 at www.humanrightstulip.nl. The winner will be selected by the Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs on the basis of public voting and the advice of an independent jury. Individuals and organisations can win global recognition and 8

9. support worth € 100.000 to further develop and scale up their innovation. In consultation with the winner, a working visit to the Netherlands will be organised to coincide with the award ceremony in The Hague on December 10. Please invite your networks to put forward candidates via the same website and encourage human rights defenders within your network to nominate themselves for the Human Rights Tulip 2015 as well. For more info see https://www.hivos.org/news/human-rights-tulip-2015-call-nominations Call for Applications, Reagan- Fascell Democracy Fellows for democratic activists, scholars and journalists, National Endowment for Democracy, DC Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program is an international exchange program named in honor of NED’s principal founders, former president Ronald Reagan and the late congressman Dante Fascell. Funded by the U.S. Congress, the fellowship program supports democratic activists, scholars, and journalists from around the world to undertake independent research on democratic challenges worldwide. For more information see http://www.ned.org/fellowships Call for Applications, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports thirty New Americans, immigrants or the children of immigrants, who are pursuing graduate school in the United States. Full eligibility requirements can be found here. Each Fellowship supports up to two years of graduate study - in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program - in the United States. Please note that the Fellowship does not cover tuition for executive programs, accelerated Bachelor's/Master's programs, or online degrees. 9

10. Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support (not to exceed $35,000), as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for two years. New Fellows join a strong community of current and past Fellows who all share the New American experience. The application deadline is November 1, 2015 at 11:59 pm EST. The competition is merit-based. Selection criteria emphasize creativity, originality, initiative, and sustained accomplishment. The program values a commitment to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The program does not have any quotas for types of degrees, universities or programs, countries of origin, or gender, etc. The top 77 applicants will be designated "finalists" and will be asked to appear for interviews in New York City or California in late-January or early-February of 2016. The Fellowship program will cover travel and accommodation. The 30 Fellowship winners, selected from among the 77 finalists, will be notified in March of 2016. They will begin to receive stipend and tuition support from the program in the fall of 2016. If a Fellow is in the second-to-last year of their graduate program in the spring of 2016, when the new class of Fellows is announced, the Fellowship may approve special requests, under certain circumstances, to retroactively activate the Fellowship in order to cover that term. The first year of Fellowship funding cannot be deferred. Unsuccessful applicants are welcome to reapply in subsequent years if they are still eligible. For more info see http://www.pdsoros.org/competition/ _____Upcoming Conferences and Events_____ The Center for Narrative Practice is accepting applications for the 2015 Low Residency Certificate in Narrative Practice. The certificate program provides an intensive introduction to the theory, methods, and applications of narrative, story, and creativity. Students will collaborate with professionals from diverse fields, disciplines, and backgrounds, and will receive practical training that can be incorporated into their lives and careers. The nine-month program begins with a residency week in Boston, MA from August 24-18, 2015. Continuing medical education credit is available. For more information: http://www.narrativepractice.org/certificate_about.html We are delighted to inform you that we have just a few spots left for the Summer Institute in Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, to be held from 10

11. July 6-18, 2015 at Columbia University in New York City. This 2-week program will be taught by an internationally recognized global mental health faculty and co-sponsored by the Global Mental Health Lab @Teacher’s College, Columbia University, the International Trauma Studies Program, and the Antares Foundation. Learn more at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/continuing-professional- studies/conferences-programs-workshops/all-offerings/summer-institute-in-global-mental-health-and- psychosocial-support-gmhpss/ _____Ebola, Infectious Disease, and More…_____ Aggregated News Reports from: Global Health NOW is an initiative of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, www.jhsph.edu. Views and opinions expressed in this email do not necessarily reflect those of the Bloomberg School. Created by Brian W. Simpson, MPH, Dayna Kerecman Myers, Maryalice Yakutchik, Jackie Frank and Salma Warshanna-Sparklin. You can connect with them at: bsimpso1@jhu.edu EBOLA Ebola Fears Undermined Malaria Control Tens of thousands of malaria cases went untreated in Guinea last year, as Ebola fears kept people with away from clinics. 74,000 fewer people were diagnosed and offered treatment for malaria than would have been expected, infectious disease experts reported in the Lancet. In some hard-hit areas, the numbers of people seeking treatment at outpatient clinics dropped by up to 42%, while people seeking care for suspected malaria fell by 69%, according to the systematic survey. The study, led by Mateusz Plucinski, noted that the early symptoms of malaria can mimic Ebola, but untreated malaria cases ultimately increase the overburdened health system—pointing to the need to keep malaria control efforts on track during an Ebola epidemic. The Guardian Ebola reappears in Sierra Leone's capital after several weeks without new cases – Deutsche Welle Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Awarded 2015 Chatham House Prize –Chatham House Straight Talking MSF The “sense of urgency” with regard to Ebola is gone, MSF chief Joanne Liu proclaimed, adding: “I’m concerned things will not change.” Aid donors at the recent G7 summit in Germany missed their chance to lay out measures for a far more vigorous response to epidemics, she charged. In the end, “the recommendations were all watered down,” she said. 11

12. Liu is open to forming a rapid response unit with an “emergency mindset” that would work with an agency like the WHO to fight disease, “but only if there is a paradigm shift in the way the organization responds to outbreaks.” The Guardian Lessons from Fighting Malaria How did Senegal stop Ebola in its tracks? The country quickly identified and tested 74 close contacts of its first Ebola patient and monitored them for 21 days, according to Philippe Guinot, PATH’s country program leader for Senegal. PATH worked with the Ministry of Health to set up an emergency operations center and a monitoring system that had worked in the context of malaria. Local health workers used mobile phones and apps to upload reports that were then used to map cases. Based on the experience, Guinot offers 5 lessons for the future. PATH Blog Mass Media: A Vector for Fear Each TV news report about Ebola in the US likely inspired tens of thousands of tweets and Internet searches—even though there were only 4 confirmed cases in the country by the end of October 2014. Researchers from Arizona State University used a mathematical model of contagion that shows how the peaks and valleys of TV news coverage from 2 major networks precede the same trends in Internet and Twitter data during a 6-week period. Their unprecedented work explores how benign interest, information-seeking behavior or public hysteria can throw off digital epidemiology—a field that aims to use similar online data for real-time prediction of outbreaks. PLOS One Ebola could hit again and we would hardly do better: MSF – Reuters Ebola in Sierra Leone: 'Remind people not to forget about us, the survivors' –The Guardian Know Thy Enemy The virulence of Ebola strains appears to be linked to the degree of protein disorder in the nucleocapsid—the shell around the virus’s genetic material. Computational analysis revealed that more disorder correlates with more lethal strains, according to the first study of its kind. The discovery, published in Molecular BioSystems, could constitute a major breakthrough in understanding why fatality rates range from 25% to 90%. “Greater disorder in proteins allows the virus to take over the host's machinery more easily, as it could then bind RNA, DNA and proteins more promiscuously,” explains lead author Gerard Goh. Chemistry World via Scientific American 12

13. INFECTIOUS DISEASES Perfect Storm for HEV Come monsoon season, survivors of Nepal’s earthquake—especially pregnant women—face a "very high" risk of a hepatitis E outbreak, infectious disease experts warn in a new Lancet article. The tremor that killed over 8,500 people and injured more than 23,000 displaced thousands more people and limited clean drinking water and sanitary facilities—conditions ripe for circulating hepatitis E virus (HEV). The 1 safe and effective vaccine available is only licensed for use in China, but it could save 400 pregnant women if used in Nepal, experts say. Business Standard MALARIA A Dollar A Dose An experimental antimalarial drug that could treat patients with a single $1 dose is set to go into clinical trials within the next year. Called DDD107498, the new compound targets part of the machinery that makes proteins within the parasite, which means it should be effective against current drug-resistant disease. “Results from tests conducted on human blood in the laboratory and in live mice suggest it is highly potent,” researchers reported in the journal Nature. VOA MERS Thailand’s First Case A hospital in Thailand confirmed its first MERS case today, in a 75-year-old businessman from Oman. It took nearly 4 days to confirm the case, in a Bangkok hospital known for treating medical tourists. 58 hospital workers have been quarantined as a result. Thailand’s case comes just as South Korea’s outbreak appears to be leveling off, after infecting 166 people and killing 24. Reuters The Global Health Security Challenge The MERS outbreak in South Korea is an important reminder that global health security hinges on strengthening public health systems, Lawrence O. Gostin and Daniel Lucey emphasize in this commentary. Health settings can amplify transmission risks, they note, as seen with SARS, Ebola, and MERS. Noting that well-trained health care workers can bring outbreaks under control quickly, they urge governments to fully fund and uphold the International Health Regulations that “…require all states to build core capacities, including diagnosis, treatment, laboratories, contact tracing, isolation, and humane forms of quarantine.” JAMA 13

14. South Korea’s MERS outbreak is a “wake-up call,”the WHO stated, but does not constitute a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” thanks to efforts to contain the illness. The country, meanwhile, reported its 20th fatality and 8 new cases, according to Voice of America. Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota, contributed to an AP update on MERS by asking why priority hasn’t been placed on developing a camel vaccine to stop transmission from young camels to humans. "If MERS shows up in the inner cities of one of the developing world megacities, like Lagos or Kinshasa, we will be in real trouble," he said. "We know there will be future outbreaks if MERS isn't stopped in the Middle East, but we are not very close to doing that now.” In a no-nonsense assessment of the world’s reaction to MERS, Helen Branswell penned this aptly titled commentary for IRIN: “MERS’s best friend is ignorance, so it’s time to wise up.” She asserts, “Over nearly three years, information about MERS has systematically either been hoarded, mishandled or perhaps not even collected at all.” Combine that with the fact that attention in the past year understandably shifted to Ebola, and end up with little progress made to learn more about MERS which simmered on the back burner. CHOLERA Keeping Peace, Spreading Disease The Haitian cholera epidemic—resulting in more than 730,000 infections and 8,900 deaths since 2010—originated with UN peacekeepers. This tragedy is a largely unheeded warning about preventing those sent to help vulnerable populations from becoming a vector for disease, according to Adam Houston of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. “. . . the cholera epidemic in Haiti is not even the worst-case scenario. That distinction would likely go to the spread of drug-resistant malaria,” Houston writes, adding that the UN “has a duty to ensure that peacekeepers protect the most vulnerable not only from war but from pestilence as well.” Foreign Affairs South Sudan Cover-Up? South Sudan's Ministry of Health has avoided declaring a cholera outbreak despite 10 confirmed cases in Juba and 9 deaths from suspected cases, according to Radio Tamazuj. Citing a cholera response sit rep and a medical source at Juba Teaching Hospital, Radio Tamazuj reports that the MoH appears to be downplaying the confirmed and suspected cases and resisting international pressure to declare an outbreak. WHO guidelines specify that an outbreak should be declared when there are 10-20 cases. Radio Tamazuj DENGUE Conflict Breeds Disease Amid Yemen’s escalating violence and humanitarian crisis, the WHO has confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in several parts of the country—with more than 3,000 suspected cases and at least 3 14

15. deaths. The cases are likely to rise due to the collapsing water, sanitation and health systems, according to the latest report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Officials warn that the cases could be much higher. Approximately 21 million in the country require humanitarian assistance, and 42,210 people have fled Yemen since the escalation of conflict in March, mainly to Djibouti and Somalia. OCHA via ReliefWeb Related: Dengue fever ravages cities – The Nation (Thailand) PLAGUE History Repeats Plague—a disease characterized as “one of God’s three arrows”—is the focus of an enlightening article in The Lancet by Andrew Wear, a historian at the University College London. In response to plague in the 15th and 16th centuries, Venice, Florence, Genoa and Milan instituted the first-ever public health measures by creating boards responsible for the construction of pest houses, quarantine and barriers to the movement of people and trade, he writes. Wear closes with this apt insight: “What so many practitioners found difficult to accept was their outright failure, blaming instead the patient or other people's treatments, something that perhaps is still apparent today.” The Lancet VACCINES Chlamydia Mystery Solved A promising new Chlamydia vaccine—one delivered via nanoparticles—may be on the horizon, reported researchers from Harvard, MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Importantly, the team revealed in the journal Science what likely went wrong with a 50-year old Chlamydia vaccine study that produced the unexpected outcome of making people more susceptible to the STD instead of teaching the human body to fight the bacteria. Chlamydia, which can cause female infertility and ectopic pregnancies, infects about 100 million people each year. Smithsonian SURGERY NO2 to the Rescue An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack of access to surgery, and poor access to sterilization is one of the underlying reasons. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) could provide a solution for low-resource environments, according to a feasibility study in PLOS One. The WHO recommends the autoclave as a primary method of sterilization for surgical care, but a lack of electricity, maintenance requirements, and the cost of equipment impede efforts to meet sterilization guidelines. For example, 66% of healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa lack a reliable 15

16. source of electricity. Portable sterilizers using NO2 could bypass the need for electrical power, and offer a number of other advantages, including operation at room temperature. Next up: studies to demonstrate the practical feasibility. PLOS One YEMEN Health Services Crumbling Exasperated doctors in Yemen describe their near-impossible task to maintain health services amid an intensifying humanitarian catastrophe. With the conflict-driven closure of over 158 facilities and a lack of fuel, medical supplies, and transportation, health services in the country are grinding to a halt. UNICEF estimates that 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and millions of children are at risk of suffering from diarrhea and pneumonia. “There is no electricity at the hospital. We have no oxygen cylinders. How are we supposed to operate? We have anaesthesia to apply and infant incubators with no oxygen. How can you carry out surgery without electricity to run the equipment? It makes you feel powerless, as if your hands are cut off, while you are expected to treat all these patients,” said Ahlam Al-Maqtari, a doctor at the Al-Sabeen hospital in Sana’a. UNICEF (Blog) Related: UN launches fresh Yemen aid appeal as WHO confirms dengue fever outbreak – The Guardian Related: 15 million Yemenis in urgent need of healthcare: WHO – Press TV (Iran) _____ CourseWorks _____ Certificate Program and DropBox Library The Center is pleased to offer access to our Library’s DropBox collections free of charge as an educational resource to anyone with a need or interest working in resource-limited settings anywhere in the world. Just email me what sections you’d like and what your work/project is. The Library’s Table of Contents is here: http://www.slideshare.net/drc hrisstout1/cgi-dropbox-library- table-of-contents There is also an option of obtaining a Certification if you are interested in doing so as well. Our curricula are based on a compilation of online lectures on global health and related areas. CGI is most indebted to 16

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