Center for Global Initiatives

Morning Commute to a 100 year old hospital with no electricity or running water, Halong Bay, Vietnam.	Posh accommodations on a "Summits for Others" Mission, Caucasus Region, Russia.
Current Opportunities (for more information on any of these projects, email Dr. Stout, via Chris@CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org)    I. Cambodia:  SMART Sustainable Medical Arts, Research, & Technology Proof of concept. We are developing a project that will bring training and potentially tele-health services to rural areas that is delivered by indigenous village women. Public heath, primary care, first aid, and emergency services are all but absent in rural areas of Cambodia. “Itinerant” medical ex-pats may be the currently best available healthcare resource in such areas. This project seeks to empower indigenous women by providing training in basic public health practices and emergency medical care/first aid so they may be of aid to those in their for their villages. They would be supported by a training program that will enable them to be able to provide sufficient help until the patient can be taken to the nearest medical facility or a traveling physician can come to the village. It will be unique as it will not require literacy to operate.   II. Bolivia: Project Niños This summer, the Center for Global Initiatives collaborated with the Flying Doctors of America in a pioneering and critical project. We were the first non-Bolivian group to be granted access to three Bolivian prisons. Hundreds of children live with their parent(s) in these prisons. We provided care with a focus on general medicine, pediatrics and gynecology. I even did a psych consult! The Center will be embarking on helping these non-criminal yet imprisoned children through a unique and pioneering effort. Basically, we plan (pending funding) to develop and deploy educational and social skills training for educators (there are schools in the prisons!) and guards, as well as parenting skills training and resilience development instruction. Here is a sample of photos from our medical services by Steve Mason: http://homepage.mac.com/masonimage/Three_Days_in_a_Bolivian_Prision/index.html   III. Ecuador/Amazon: CONTACT: Coordination & Online Tracking of Activities & Clinical Teams  This work involves the development of a freely accessible, web-based database that functions as a coordinating center for medical missions; medication distribution; medical equipment donations; Evidence Based Practice (EBP) guidelines and protocols for triage, diagnostics, and therapeutics; etc., for groups working in the Equatorial Amazon Basin (with goals of expansion world-wide). It will also serve as a nascent epidemiological database, and the first electronic health record for indigenous tribes-people for medical aid and population health workers.   IV. Tanzania: THRIVE: Tanzanian Health & Resilience Initiative Valuing Education The Kindergarten Dr. Stout helped to found in 2005 is expanding its scope in THRIVE. We are using education as a basis for developing resilience of the orphans as well as those providing healthcare in the neighboring clinic/hospital. We will be developing programs for local nursing students and orphan children in collaboration with local doctors, nurses, and staff. We will have a particular focus on counseling to people with HIV infection and AIDS. We will be in Moshi. The ages of children are between 3 to 12 years. The name of the hospital is Huruma Designated Hospital and is in Kilimanjaro Region in Rombo District. The Primary illness of patients in our hospital are Malaria, T.B, Pneumonia, Immunosupression, Diabetes, and Hypertension.   V. Benin: Medical InterAction: Linking Sustainable Ecology and Medial Innovation Contacts and relationships have been developed with colleagues in Benin that crosscuts various areas: health and illness, poverty and sustainability, environmental concerns, traditional and medical sciences/health treatment and education. We plan to develop a scientific and economic mechanism of researching the medicinal properties of specific plant materials used by our Benin partners (university scientists and traditional healers) to further develop medicines and use the resultant knowledge in order to refine the compounds to have fewer side-effects and improved dosing characteristics, and to develop that intellectual property into concomitant economic value that will provide for economic sustainability, self-sufficiency, and independence for on-going research. . VI. USA & Canada: Public Safety and Evidence Based Practice We are working in collaboration with DUI Counseling Centers (USA) and Traffic Injury Research Foundation (Canada), in a pioneering effort to develop a proof of concept that blends a robust assessment model with appropriate, evidence-based differential therapeutics. The impact is expected to manifest in better treatment, data-based policy changes, and improved public safety. . VII. Ukraine: Nutritional and Health Assessment of the Physically and Mentally Challenged Children in Level 3 and 4 Internauts (Orphanages) in Ukraine for the Purpose of Treatment and Malnourished Children and the Education of Their Caretakers Collaboration with the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the National Assembly of Disables in Ukraine for a USAID grant. Another life saving project. VIII. India: WorldWise: Summers Through a collaborative with partners in rural India who have developed a comprehensive, community-based primary health care approach, I am helping to recruit students for summer experiences that will provide life changing perspective on healthcare. The project is called WorldWise and it is being made available only to graduate students (in any health discipline), med students, and Fellows. Dr. Stout’s recent invited and professional presentations include... Sustainable Medical Arts Research, & Technology (SMART) Project. Royal University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. . Psychology and Global Health: A Consortium Model. 2nd Middle East and North Africa Regional Conference of Psychology, Amman, Jordan.   Coping with the disaster of terrorism at the community level: Fear is more contagious than Anthrax. National Association of Local Boards of Health, Anchorage, AK.   The Power of One. Invited Keynote Address, Leading Loyola: Creating a Leadership Legacy, Loyola University, Chicago, IL.   The global psychology perspective: Marked need and remarkable opportunities. Invited Address, IPA Graduate Student Association, Chicago, IL.   Psychology, health and the UN. Invited Address, IPA Social Responsibility Section, Chicago, IL.   Global health and psychology: Projects past, present, and future. Invited Address, Argosy University – Illinois School of professional Psychology, Chicago, IL.   The psychology of conflict. Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security. Invited talk, Istanbul, Turkey.   Finding Your Place in the World: Places, Projects, and Psychology. Invited Address, Cultural Impact Conference Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL.   Global health projects. Invited lecture, School of Public Health, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL.   Interviews: Summiting Mt. Whitney and Summits For Others. Lake County Informant.   International needs and response. Daily Herald.   Eye on Harvard, InTime TV http://68.251.204.5/video/intimetv/har005.wmv   International psychology’s rock star. APA Monitor on Psychology. http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec07/rockstar.html . Projects of the Center for Global Initiatives. Lake County Television.
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Hotel Europa, Belfast - The most frequently bombed hotel in Europe.	Shanty Town, Soweto, South Africa Mission.