update email - week of 1/15/08
Sanjay Basu
to be announced in the next few days.
Fundraising updates:
-thanks to the generous $1500 anonymous donor; multiple small donors as well.
-Mckinsey to send check later in month (bibhav following up)
-CDC $30,000 grant in final stages
-Received the $23,000 from international foundation
-Equityedit passed the $10K milestone in December.
-Andrew coordinating the idance yale undergraduate dance-athon for Nyaya Health.
-WB HIV stigma competition due jan. 31. see SharedNyaya\Clinic
Documents\Grants\WB Marketplace.doc
astha, sanjay, duncan, bibhav working on it; contact us if interested
-We will submit SAARC HIV/TB proposal as soon as we have it ready.
see SharedNyaya\Clinic Documents\Grants\SAARC. email duncan if
interested
-for masters or phd-level public health students:
http://www.newaid.org/pb/wp_bfcdd344/wp_bfcdd344.html?0.74797790753482
-Sanj coordinating next round of grants
Clinic Scheduling:
-March 6 (auspicious day of maha shivaratri) is set as the new opening date
-On-site leadership at that time: Ana, Tenzing, hopefully Dr. Bishnu
and Dr. Bijay.
-likely need to hire a new doctor prior to starting unless Dr. Bishnu
is able to fix his scheduling.
-tenzing, ana, and bishnu through august +/-
-astha likely to start in september, hoping to be there for a year
-gaurav likely to start around may, will do a trial period then
consider a 1-2 year posting
-AMD/OA design team starting in april
-bibhav june 15 for ten weeks
Microfinance team:
AMD/OAN:
-new site information has been uploaded; design teams have been highly
appreciative
-duncan coordinating with design teams via email and on the FAQs page:
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/challenge/asia/faq
-please provide feedback and edits to the strategy document
(SharedNyaya\Clinic
Documents\Grants\AMD_OAN\OAN_AMD_Nyaya_Health_Telecomm_Center
can view it at:
http://www.nyayahealth.org/Library/OAN_AMD_Nyaya_Health_Telecomm_Center.pdf
-timeline:
feb. 29: final design submissions
march 25: our design team selected
april: selection of the grand winner (Kenya, Peru, or us, Nepal) of
the guaranteed 250K award from AMD. To make sure we are competitive,
we need to keep the design teams updated and to continue to revise our
ICT strategy with new ideas.
Procurement:
-shaan delivered the QBC machine, digital camera, computer
-shaan has obtained a digital microscope; will try to get deliver it
with dr. bijay in mid-february
-several positive leads on the ultrasound machine. goal is to deliver
with dr. bijay in mid-february
-X-Ray
-EKG
Connectivity
-CDMA has not been reliable.
-we will go with VSAT via STM, this will be ready by March. 128kbps.
-BGAN was returned and refunded.
-Nepal Telecom lobbying
Nyaya Health-Nepal
-this is the sister NGO that we are creating to implement projects
Summer Internships
-please forward widely to your colleagues:
http://www.nyayahealth.org/Library/Internship_Opportunities.doc
-send to duncan any ideas/needs for summer internships
-interns should do extensive background research and preparation NOW
EquityEdit
-board meeting in Japan
-we have re-opened applications:
http://www.equityedit.org/apply.html
encourage your friends to apply [note though that given the large
pool, we usually only take folks
who already have an md or phd and/or have significant publication experience]
-working on journal articles and media outreach
-still trying to find vendor for manuscript portal
Ana:
-implementing lab and waste management
-training clerk in supply chain management software
-getting timing system for night duty staff to regularly check patients
-maintaining accounting
-writing narrative of the process of opening the clinic
-uploading lab and waste protocols to the wiki
-making clinic sign
-maintaining oxygen concentrator
-suction device maintenance
-implementing mSupply software
-purchasing 3 small solar-powered calculators for lab and administrative offices
-getting petty cash box with lock
-from the mSupply database and following discussion with dr. bishnu
about the prices, print out a price listing of all the medicines
Bibhav:
-Shaan and bibhav picked up QBC Autoread from QBC's manufacturing
plant in Philipsburg. Both received training on operating the
hematology centrifuge system. The folks were very nice and supportive
(they came in to work on a saturday morning just to train us). We now
have a centrifuge, the autoread, a bubble jet b/w printer, 100 lancet
blades, many many capillary tubes, a pipette for venous blood
transfer and a qbc workstation. everything works in 220/240 V.
Donation is worth about $10,000. Many thanks to Dr. Levine (inventor
of autoread) and QBC Diagnostics.
-talking to Errol Norwitz (OB/GYN at yale new haven hosp) about how to
get dept help for nyaya
-corresponding with Chris Moore (yale-new haven hosp) about getting
ultrasound from GE, will work with Sanjay on the grant
-Following up with Help Nepal on grant for USG.
-Coordinating with Haverford College to find summer intern(s) for the
HIV prevention program
-creating Nepali NGO
-Preparing World Bank grant for HIV stigma/discrimination with sanjay,
duncan and bijay
-Corresponding with Birendra Bahadur Basnet, owner/Managing Director
of Budhha Air to help Nyaya: meeting in Feb/March.
-Coordinating the summer team to Achham
Bishnu:
-getting VCT established
-getting PMTCT established
-inviting CDO, DSP, and DHO to opening of the clinic (Rajan arranging
for ribbon cutting etc.)
-determining plan for getting modular DOTS training
-hiring staff
-working with chettri and ana to set up all the medicines and list
them appropriately in mSupply software.
-setting up delivery suite with the ANMs (room for ~3 beds)
-setting up pharmacy with ana, pharmacist and clerk
-setting up procedure/infusion room.
-cutting green cloth into appropriate sizes for minor sterile procedures
-setting up equipment sets for different procedures.
-figuring out how to get ARV program going.
-continuing to recruit doctors, talk with friends, to get temporary
and long-term replacement.
-staying in touch with Niroj banepali about doing medical tasks in
KTM. also amit pradhanang
-calling dr. Subhas Sitaula to discuss with him long-term posting.
Chris:
-I went to the Global Knowledge 3 conference in Kuala Lumpur to
represent EquityEdit in the "Young Social Entrepreneurs Forum"
-met and "networked" with a bunch of cool people with
socially-oriented businesses, for instance Santhosh from Profits for
People: http://www.profitsforpeople.org/ and Packiaraj from Smile
Charitable Trust:
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ysef07/applicationform/registration_form.cfm?action=judgeViewAll®id=115&projectid=1
-participated in the IdeaFactory to help produce 20 ideas to make
a world of entrepreneurs by 2020
-most of the GK3 conference was focused on business and new technologies
-although i did get to attend a session on the use of ICTs
(integrated communication technologies) in healthcare that was
interesting
-check out the forum website:
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ysef07/index.cfm?&menuid=6 or
email me, if you'd like more information about what it was like
-I'm working on managing the Nyaya Health (and EquityEdit) google
Adwords advertising campaign that is funded by a google grant. It is
designed to draw more people to our websites and give them more
information about what we're doing, and hopefully to draw donations
from more people.
-we were initially having problems spending all the thousands of
dollars we are allocated each month on the grant because of some
restrictions on the kinds of ads we can display and the amount we can
bid for placing our ad next to each keyword that is searched for
-but with the addition of a huge amount of new keywords we are
making a little bit better use of the campaign, getting close to
spending 40 dollars of the grant money per day on some days after the
most recent keyword additions
-you can see this in action by searching for something like "nepal
health" or "child malnutrition" on google and watching us come up on
the right of the page
-let me know if you can think of funky keywords we might not have
thought of that are related to us (even tangentially) that people
might search for
-andrew and i are emailing people at the yale daily news to get an
article about nyaya and the opening of the clinic
-i finally posted my pictures from summer 2007 on picasa, which is the
linked to in the sidebar of the wiki. i'm still working on captions
and tags though.
-I'm also starting to work on building our knowledge base about
alternative energy sources, mostly solar power. More on this in the
coming weeks...
Manindra:
-finding out from NTC about booster/repeater
-TT another 350K to RABA
-working with Dr. Marasini at MoH
-creating the NGO; coordinating with bibhav
-involving brothers more
-getting Nepalwireless to come to Achham to do site survey for
intradistrict Wi-Fi.
-keeping mero mobile and cdma phone; can use for nyaya business
-having brothers help shaan with getting into town
-returning BGAN terminal
-coordinating with Duncan on the embassies
Shaan:
-developing electronic database
-assisting Bishnu with whatever VCT/PMTCT needs
-seting up CBC autoanalyzer; assisting Ana with whatever other lab
improvements needed
-assessing and improve clinical records system
-traveling one day to surrounding VDC to do outreach with an HA or ANM
-taking pictures of functioning clinic to bring back to states
-bringing computers if available
-getting extra dell power supply
Sanjay:
-Current grants pending receipt: CDC (looking very good), Yale
(receiving now), Notsew Orm Sands (+/-), James S. McDonnell (+), Oak
Foundation (-), Child Health (waiting until april), MAC AIDS (waiting
until PMTCT), public welfare (-), help
nepal (+/- bibhav)
-Will start tax forms in January; please update cash flow sheet
(google doc) with your expenditures as soon as possible
-Pursuing cancer centers to see if pathologists can volunteer to read
Paps, and same with radiologists reading x-rays. The latter is going
very well, we have at least one radiologist for sure who is committed
and reads every day as long as receiving the x-rays electronically
someone (he is US-based); but the pathologists are harder - if you
know of cancer docs, please send sanjay their contact info.
-Talking with Cameron to update the AMD OpenArchitecture contest's
website (for the architects who will build our telemedicine center,
paid by AMD). Duncan drew up several specifics related to the building
site, which should be posted soon.
-Have to discuss with Bibhav about procuring ultrasound from GE. If
anyone knows GE employees, please contact us.
Duncan
Last Two Weeks
-updated OAN/AMD strategy:
http://www.nyayahealth.org/Library/OAN_AMD_Nyaya_Health_Telecomm_Center.pdf
-coordinating with Shaan for his trip
-coordinating with Manindra the bureaucratic tasks for nepal telecom
-working with Bibhav on the summer volunteer guide:
-working on HIV/TB cross-border grant:
SharedNyaya\Clinic Documents\Grants\SAARCHIVTB
-working with Rina on the donor brochure:
-interviewing candidates for summer positions
--
Sanjay Basu
26 High Street, #2
New Haven, CT 06510
+1 203 232 8806 (ph)
+1 203 785 3260 (fax)
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