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Invited Midwestern Psychological Association Presentation - 2019

The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to help in the creation of self-sustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world. Learn more at: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/ and http://www.drchrisstout.com/

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Invited Midwestern Psychological Association Presentation - 2019

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  1. From Research to Practice in Humanitarian Intervention Chris E. Stout College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago Center for Global Health Chicago School of Professional Psychology And Center for Global Initiatives

  2. 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

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

  4. 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!

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

  6. 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.

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

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

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

  10. 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 who accomplished their final secondary school exams and did passed very well, 10 we top scorers in Tanzania. They have been selected by the Ministry of Education to join in the special national government school program.

  11. “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.

  12. In terms third party cred:

  13. What’s next? Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention

  14. Thank you… Please be in touch: DrChrisStout.com CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org

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