Transcript RIPP - Duke University

Research In Practice
RIPP
Student Impacts
• 66 students have participated in RIPP sponsored
courses
• 20 students have received RIPP sponsored funding for
travel and/or course related activities
• 3 students have received multiple semesters of support
for ongoing projects.
• Approximately 80 students total have been supported
in some way with RIPP funds. The total is not a straight
sum because some students did a course or got
funding support for activities that fell under the RIPP
domain but that evolved from a previous course.
Partners on Campus
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Baldwin scholar program
CASE
Center for Documentary Studies
Duke Micro Finance Leadership Initiative
Duke Engage
Duke Center for Civic Engagement
Engineering World Health
Enterprising Leadership Initiative
Fuqua
The Global Health Institute
Nicholas School of Environment
Office of the Provost
Pratt College of Engineering
Sanford School of Public Policy
Trinity College
Office of Vice Provost for the Arts
Community Partners
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Accion Emprendedora
Bull City Forward
The Beautiful. Project
The Center for Disease Control
Durham Housing Authority
Duke/Durham Regional Affairs Office
El Centro
Foster Care of Durham
Hau Dan Group, China
The Mission Continues, St. Louis, Mo.
MTV’s VH1.com, New York, NY
Nkokonjeru Saving and Credit Cooperative, Uganda
Self Help Credit Union
Spring Creek Literacy Project, Spring Creek, N.C.
Countries Impacted by Student
Projects
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Bangladesh
Brazil
Cambodia (Fall 2011)
China
Ethiopia
India
Kenya
Nicaragua
Rwanda
Tanzania
Uganda
United States
Funds Leveraged
• $2mil+ and counting from the private sector for the Chordoma Foundation
• $250,000 from GE for the technical repair manual roll out in Rwanda and
Cambodia (Fall 2011)
• Approximately $60,000 from the Center for Disease Control for the repair
manual roll out in Ethiopia
• $200,000 Ronald McDonald grant for the rain water harvesting system in
Uganda
• Center for Documentary Studies, cameras and requirement for student
projects
• Provost Office, purchase of equipment (Approx. value $15,000)
• DCCE Fellowships, $10,000 for 4 students
• ELI, $5,000
• $115,000 from private source for funding 2 film projects
• Approximately $10,000 from Engineering World Health
Projects with Wide Reach
The Problem:
Funding research for orphan diseases and coordinating research efforts.
Solution:
Establishment of the Chordoma Foundation- this organization continues to successfully raise funds
and organize a variety of medical conferences dealing with orphan disease. In addition, the head of
the organization is working with the NIH to craft the first policy regarding open source tissue testing
(which is a means of leveraging up diverse research efforts for a variety of orphan diseases). He is
also establishing a tissue bank for chordoma tissue at Ohio State.
The Problem:
Eighty per cent of the medical equipment in less developed countries (LDC) is donated and 80% of that
does not work properly
Solution:
Development of a technical repair manual for medical equipment in LDCs. Research indicates that
the majority of LDC equipment malfunction is due to simple problems such as differing currents,
broken switches, spent fuses, etc. The repair manual addresses such issues and is used to train
technicians to provide ongoing support for the medical equipment. This program has been piloted
in Rwanda and will be piloted and tested in Cambodia in the fall. In addition, Duke is currently in
talks with Ghana, Honduras, Belize and Kenya for future adoption. Although the study was small,
early results indicate that the hospitals employing the tech training manual are experiencing a 40%
improvement in out-of-service equipment.
Projects with Wide Reach Cont.
The Problem:
Gender issues on campus and the lack of women mentors.
The Solution:
Establishment of a women’s mentoring program for Duke undergraduate
women. The first year of this program was piloted in the Women’s Center
at Duke. It has now moved to the Baldwin Scholars Program where it will
have an institutional home and funding support.
The Problem:
Censorship of the internet.
The Solution:
Capturechange.org, a web site developed through RIPP which deals with
issues of censorship in the media. This web site provides a map of global
censorship efforts, outlines the actions various governments are taking
with respect to censorship and offers work around solutions to a variety of
the obstacles that governments have put in place.
Projects with Wide Reach Cont.
The Problem:
Maternal health.
The Solution: Rainwater harvesting in Uganda. Initial survey results indicated that
one of the most significant obstacles to good maternal health in Uganda was the
lack of clean drinking water. Hence, harvesting of rain water from roof runoff
combined with training regarding water filtering and storage addresses the
problem. This project is a joint effort of RIPP and the Global Health Institute. At
present half of the town has had harvesting systems installed. The Duke
undergraduate behind this effort has received a Full bright Scholarship and will be
returning to Uganda for the next year. He will oversee the assessment of the
impact and, depending on results, installing the remaining systems.
The Problem:
Access to credit/ gender inequality.
The Solution:
Production of a documentary on micro-finance and the impact it is having on
women’s lives on four continents (Asia, Africa ,North America, and South America).
The expectation is that this film will be ready by Dec 2011 and will enter the
documentary film circuit in the spring of 2012.
Projects with Wide Reach Cont.
The Problem:
The lack of awareness of and support for community members with mental health
issues throughout Africa.
The Solution: Mental Health training to community leaders in Tanzania.
Approximately fifteen community leaders in Moshi where trained to offer
counseling and support for mental health issues in the local community.
In addition, one of the team leaders on this project has just published a chapter in a
text book on mental health based on the Tanzania project. She incorporated a
section on global mental health and highlighted studies on the importance of
spirituality and coping with severe mental illness in more traditional and less
wealthy countries. She has a longer manuscript that is being shopped to
publishers to see if they will publish it as a small book. If published, it would be the
first book on the topic! The goal is that it would inform clinicians of the role that
spiritual and religious beliefs play in coping with the illness for patients with
schizophrenia, so that the clinician can incorporate it into therapy if they find it
of personal importance to the patient.
Projects with Wide Reach Cont.
The Problem:
Minority entrepreneurs confront limitations to growth due to the lack of financial resources and /or
training. (see “Planting the Seeds for Micro-businesses,” The Herald Sun, 5/16/2011).
The Solution:
Establishment of Accion Emprendedora. This organization aims to establish its first American branch
in Durham. Essentially the organization will serve as a small business development agency for the
Latino community.
The Problem:
HIV packaging for single does delivery is simply too expensive to be widely available or used in Africa.
The Solution:
Development of HIV packaging that minimizes drug loss and heat exposure as single doses are
drawn from the bulk container. Such packaging will make it much easier to distribute anti-virals to
new mothers, the majority of which are not delivering their children in conventional medical
centers.
The Problem:
Risky behavior and poor diet of minority teens.
The Solution:
Development of a teen health program for the members of El Centro, Durham.
The Future
Starting in Fall 2011 RIPP will be institutionally housed in the Office of the
Dean for Undergraduate Education. Dr. Leachman will continue to
administer the program with a title of Special Assistant to the Dean for the
Undergraduate Education. The longer term goal will be to reorganize the
Office for Undergraduate Research and fold the RIPP program into that
entity to foster better coordination of undergraduate research
opportunities.
In addition, RIPP will partner with Engineering for summer fellowships for
masters in engineering students. These students find that internship
opportunities are rather limited, especially in the area of world health.
Hence, in the fall of 2011, the Masters in Engineering Program will
designate two RIPP Fellows in Global Health. These fellows will take an
array of courses over the academic year which will position them to work
in the World Healthcare Technology Lab ( DHTLab) the following summer.
The Fellowship supports their summer lab work.