minutes from nyaya health meeting of 1/21/08
Sanjay Basu
January 21 at 7:30pm at EPH 47 College Street, New Haven, CT
Marked with >> needs follow-up, next steps or needs involvement.
Marked with *** are items of high priority/immediate need
FUNDRAISING UPDATES
-most of current funding is from individuals and from foundation money
but most of the latter are earmarked.
-received $23K from International Foundation, McKinsey's check should
be sent out on Feb 15th via United Way. Both with no strings and for
Nyaya's greatest priorities.
-Andrew coordinating with organizers of iDance at Yale college to
raise $$ for Nyaya.
-Will be in three weeks so need to get people excited about Nyaya so
more will donate.
-Chris and Andrew coordinating an article with Yale Bulletin on Nyaya
health (include information on the talk/screening)
-Public health lunch Chris and Bibhav to attend
Email Andrew to offer help with:
>>find corporate sponsor to possibly match all donations
>>local businesses, parents etc.
>>organize screening of nyaya's documentary and a 30 min talk:
duncan/sanjay/bibhav to do
>>edit documentary down to 10 minutes OR splice in two and upload at
parts on youtube because youtube > google video. Send the link out to
all undergrad.
>>Promotional content: will need for our own purpose anyway so we can
use this to promote for the dance
>>Use social networking sites: facebook etc. Also look at mycausetv.com
>>Create a presentation using pics from picasa, add some texts using
something like movie maker make an avi to email/upload.
-Yale Med Alumni magazine to feature Nyaya health, they will contact
some members for stories
GRANTS
-If interested in working in Achham for the summer or a whole year,
start pursuing grants now Full bright and other sources of funding for
people willing to spend a year in Achham
(http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/Fellowshipsandfunding)
-HIV TB grant for SAARC (almost finalized)
>>>need a self-imposed deadline
-WB grant (Bibhav will submit soon: deadline end of Jan)
-Bibhav to submit to Until there is a cure
-Sally and Shaan doing a combined New Aid grant ($8000 for two MPH students)
-Media for Health (feb 8th) and detailed proposal later
>>>need folks interested in using media/telecom/accountability (email Duncan)
look at http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/MediaforHealth
-Sanjay will create a system to manage all grants to keep track of how
they are being spent.
>>>tax season coming: any withdrawals, let sanjay know
>>>add email addresses for all donors you know: will need to send
annual report to them.
UPDATES FROM SHAAN'S TRIP
-QBC Autoread safely brought to the Achham clinic, working properly
-Shaan also was able to receive a donated laptop, digital camera and a printer.
***>>>Please note that all of these items, totaling about $13,000,
were procured from personal contacts. Since we are young and without a
track record yet, we need to continue using our personal contacts for
funds and equipment. Please contact bibhav if interested in strategies
for personal fundraising. You don't need a rich uncle (good if you
do), just need to feel strongly that like with all start-ups, we will
need to generate support from our personal contacts.
CLINIC STATUS
-Renovations of the clinic largely complete
-March 6 (auspicious day of maha shivaratri) set as the opening date,
tasks before we can open our doors:
***>>>a triage protocol: start a wiki page and finalize asap
>>>need to hire 2 more midwives: total 4 midwives
>>>Security guard for the clinic, Duncan discussing today with Rajan and Ana
***>>>Hire a new medical director ready by start date: Dr. Migma's
student apparently the most promising candidate. Bijay working with
Niroj to put out an ad for one, though Migma's colleague is the best
choice. Email Bi...@nyayahealth.org if interested to help with the
physician search.
-KMVS clinic provided us with their adherence tools for illiterate patients
>>>we will implement-- need a summer volunteer to oversee: contact Duncan
-Rajan dai, Ana, and Manindra dai are meeting up today in Kathmandu
amidst the strike to go over the final agreements with Regional
authorities. Rajan to return to Achham tomorrow.
CLINIC LEADERSHIP/PERSONNEL
-tenzing starting in end February
-Ana out by May (significant institutional knowledge turnover
required—we will need someone to handle waste and management)
-astha likely to start in september, hoping to be there for a year,
will train at the CRHP (www.jamkhed.org) for a month prior to starting
-AMD/OA design team starting in april
-bibhav june 15 for ten weeks, gaurav will start at the same time,
will stay for 10 weeks as a trial period then consider a 1-2 year
leadership posting
-jason likely to be out there early june
-Ali June 15 for ten weeks focusing on community readiness for an
insurance program for the clinic.
>>>need summer interns in architecture and IT (Sanjay has a potential
intern for archi; Duncan corresponding with architecture school).
Widely circulate the solicitation document:
http://www.nyayahealth.org/Library/Internship_Opportunities.pdf by
updating the idealist.org site and other social networks with the new
internships. Contact Andrew if offering help with online presence and
social networking.
-Look at the fellowships page if considering summer positions
http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/Fellowshipsandfunding
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal be identified to work as
CHWs for Nyaya: ***>>> number one priority at the moment in terms of
management models, protocols, training manuals, monitoring
effectiveness, equipping with technological tools like Wi-Fi phones.
Please check http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/CHWs and email bibhav if
interested in helping with any of helping with the CHWs Program.
Finalize all preparations and start program by mid-March: almost
parallel to beginning in-clinic services.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES
-need to engage the community before beginning services: create a
community advisory board when Bijay gets to Achham.
-exploring ways to create a management system that makes us
accountable to the people we serve by identifying a patients advisory
board to influence our management and policy.
-http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/CommunityAccountability
>>>possibly getting MIT business students to help with this. Email
bibhav if interested to develop institutional knowledge base on this
to explore what has worked/what hasn't in health or other sectors of
development
AMD/TELEMEDICINE
-Many designers working on our project
>>>Experts needed to assist remotely (in the US and in Ktm) pursue in
idealist.org. For real time work (for pathology, pap smears etc) need
to pursue more within Nepal.
MALNUTRITION
-working group led by bhumika and chhitij are developing academic
basis and ideas
-chhitij likely in achham for 3 months starting september to implement
>>>please see and contact them if interested
http://nyayahealth.pbwiki.com/Malnutrition
>>>note that we can submit a grant to: http://www.hpinepal.org.np/
<--please pursue within malnutrition group
NEPALI NGO
-register as an implementer, sister NGO of Nyaya
-Bijay will set it up either in Kathmandu or Pokhara
>>>can anyone get hold of a nepali constitution for a health ngo?
email bibhav, also any suggestions for a Nepali name for the NGO
WEB PRESENCE
-need to emphasize uniqueness of Nyaya to visitors of www.nyayahealth.org :
>>>add an FAQ section, change About Us, transfer certain things from
the wiki to the home page, add section for volunteers, improve
donation page. email bibhav if interested in assisting. No web
designing, just ideas to improve the already excellent website.
-Add notes/thoughts/reflections on the blog and tag them with themes,
your names etc. These honest blog pieces are well-received by viewers.
-will be adding annual report, "prospectus for social investor" once
they are finalized this weekend
EQUITYEDIT
-applications open now for one of our most solid and sustainable
fundraising mechanisms.
http://www.equityedit.org/apply.html
>>>encourage contacts with experience in writing/editing scientific
journals to apply. Advertise using social networking sites.
>>>any serious programmers who can assist in developing a portal for
managing manuscripts more efficiently. Proedit japan has contracted
with limitnone.com and is willing to provide up to $10,000 to
implement the system; we need volunteer programmers to get this system
up quickly.
OTHER NEEDS
-Annual report and other materials (brochures, promotional materials
needing design: tejas and rina will coordinate)
-Bijay to pursue board of advisors in Nepal
-Joshua Copel of Yale-New Haven Hospital OB-GYN Dept potentially for
BOA: currently helping us procure USG machine; any other leads most
welcome
>>>X-Ray solicitation: Duncan pursuing with Dr. Mingma, GE; any others
much appreciated.
>>>see grants folder in foldershare for both USG and X-Ray.