International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), SEAD Partner
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IPIHD is a not-for-profit organization, hosted by Duke University, with a social mission of increasing global access to cost-effective and high-quality healthcare. The mission of IPIHD is achieved by addressing the key challenges preventing the effective scale and replication of innovative models of healthcare delivery through four core programs available to a select Network of leading global health innovators.
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Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI)
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The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) promotes innovation in health and health care through high-impact research, leadership development, and cultivation of a community of entrepreneurship.
DIHI aspires to bring innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in health and health care by catalyzing multidisciplinary teamwork across Duke University and Duke Medicine and by fostering collaborations with national and international thought leaders. |
Duke Global Health Institute
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The Duke Global Health Institute, established in 2006, brings knowledge from every corner of Duke University to bear on the most important global health issues of our time. DGHI was established as a University-wide institute to coordinate, support, and implement Duke’s interdisciplinary research, education, and service activities related to global health. DGHI is committed to developing and employing new models of education and research that engage international partners and find innovative solutions to global health challenges.
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Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory (DHT Lab)
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The Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory (DHT Lab) is dedicated to; understanding, creating and disseminating healthcare technology to the world's neediest. We do this by developing new technologies to address unmet needs, supporting and assessing programs to train hospital technicians in the developing world, conducting research that informs practice and policy, and mentoring the next generation of innovators and designers.
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Center for Global Women's Health Technologies (GWHT)
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The Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies (GWHT), which is located at Duke University, bridges the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Global Health Institute. By integrating these diverse institutional atmospheres, the GWHT center has created a hub that will increase research and education in global women’s diseases, in particular chronic disease, such as breast and cervical cancer, and maternal fetal health. The center aims to provide stimulating multidisciplinary and multicultural experiences to motivate Duke’s young women and men to utilize science and technology to tackle global challenges in women’s health. The hope is to create an international pipeline of innovators and innovations to transform the lives of women globally.
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Bass Connections: Evaluation of Scaling Innovative Healthcare Delivery in East Africa
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The goal of this Bass Connection Project is to increase our understanding of the drivers of scale for health-focused Social Entrepreneurs (SEs) and the impact of these organizations in improving the health and healthcare of their target populations.
Faculty Team Members: Krishna Udayakumar (Glboal Health and Medicine), David Robinson (Finance, Fuqua School of Business), Joseph Egger (Global Health) |
SEAD-funded Research
As part of SEAD and USAID's objective to contribute to a broadened and enhanced understanding of the conditions that foster or inhibit effective, sustainable, and scalable innovations in health and healthcare, this summer we put forth an RFP to Duke researchers for projects exploring scaling the impact of global health innovation.
While it was a difficult decision, we narrowed down the field to these four projects for this year. Researchers will be tackling a range of issues from postpartum hemorrhage treatment training in East Africa to social media impact evaluation in Latin America. We look forward to seeing what insights they obtain through their research!
Allan Shang/Praekelt Foundation: “A Database of Mobile Technology and Cellphone Distribution in South Africa”
Despite being the world's poorest continent, cellphone ownership in Africa approaches almost 80%. We propose to investigate the unprecedented spread of these devices, especially into the poorest, most remote rural areas and develop a model of the distribution pattern. This model would not only attempt to characterize this pattern but also determine the level of technology in use and, if possible, the capabilities of the data network in these rural areas. Using this information, appropriately designed, cellphone-driven medical devices could be disseminated along these targeted distribution routes to the population with the fewest resources and the greatest need.
Gary Bennet, Erica Levine: “A Process & Impact Evaluation of Pro Mujer’s Facebook Intervention: Pro Mujer Salud”
Little is known about how workplaces can leverage social media sites like Facebook to encourage adoption of healthy behaviors and change social norms regarding physical activity and better nutrition. This is especially true in the developing world where chronic disease is becoming increasingly prevalent. Pro Mujer is a social entrepreneurship organization that provides poor women in Latin America with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and their families through financial services, business training, and health care support. The Global Digital Health Science Center at Duke, in partnership with Pro Mujer, is conducting an evaluation of Pro Mujer’s Facebook platform to determine the reach, participation patterns, and engagement levels of the page among staff members. Additionally, we will evaluate the Facebook page’s effect on beliefs about the ease and effectiveness of chronic disease prevention habits such as: eating more fruits and vegetables, avoiding sugary drinks, good oral hygiene, and increasing physical activity.
Jeff Taekman: “Postpartum Hemorrhage Education Via Simulation”
An inter-professional team in the Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center (HSPSC) is pioneering the use of scalable and distributable healthcare simulation using commercial game technology with a multi-player module that specifically addresses postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). As a proof-of-concept for global health, the PPH simulation software will be used to address gaps in care at Mulago International Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and to decrease disparities in healthcare education. We will host inter-professional, interactive, games-based simulation training sessions from Durham to Mulago using the Internet. This pilot program aims to reduce the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, to serve as a broader model for using simulation to scale education and spread virtual learning through the developing world, and to collect preliminary data to support a future proposal to study the efficacy of screen-based/games-based learning in global health.
Key personnel include: Jeff Taekman (MD) who is the Principal Investigator, Megan Foureman (CRNA, MSN), Amy Mauritz (MD), Adeyemi Olufolabi (MB.BS; DCH; FRCA), Michael Steele (BS) and Genevieve DeMaria (BS).
Janet Schwartz, Dan Ariely: “Using Behavioral Science to Improve Linda Jamii Registration and Enrollment in Kenya”
Linda Jamii is a non-profit micro-insurance scheme that provides low and middle-income Kenyans with a financial savings mechanism for health insurance. As is the case in many emerging economies, formal insurance products can be slow to catch on because strong cultural norms guide people to rely more on communal support than formal insurance. Unfortunately, these communal mechanisms are not always enough to cover expenses and people must resort to selling property to finance healthcare. This makes emerging from poverty that much more difficult. This project’s goal is to leverage insights from the behavioral sciences to boost registration and continued enrollment in Linda Jamii health insurance.
While it was a difficult decision, we narrowed down the field to these four projects for this year. Researchers will be tackling a range of issues from postpartum hemorrhage treatment training in East Africa to social media impact evaluation in Latin America. We look forward to seeing what insights they obtain through their research!
Allan Shang/Praekelt Foundation: “A Database of Mobile Technology and Cellphone Distribution in South Africa”
Despite being the world's poorest continent, cellphone ownership in Africa approaches almost 80%. We propose to investigate the unprecedented spread of these devices, especially into the poorest, most remote rural areas and develop a model of the distribution pattern. This model would not only attempt to characterize this pattern but also determine the level of technology in use and, if possible, the capabilities of the data network in these rural areas. Using this information, appropriately designed, cellphone-driven medical devices could be disseminated along these targeted distribution routes to the population with the fewest resources and the greatest need.
Gary Bennet, Erica Levine: “A Process & Impact Evaluation of Pro Mujer’s Facebook Intervention: Pro Mujer Salud”
Little is known about how workplaces can leverage social media sites like Facebook to encourage adoption of healthy behaviors and change social norms regarding physical activity and better nutrition. This is especially true in the developing world where chronic disease is becoming increasingly prevalent. Pro Mujer is a social entrepreneurship organization that provides poor women in Latin America with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and their families through financial services, business training, and health care support. The Global Digital Health Science Center at Duke, in partnership with Pro Mujer, is conducting an evaluation of Pro Mujer’s Facebook platform to determine the reach, participation patterns, and engagement levels of the page among staff members. Additionally, we will evaluate the Facebook page’s effect on beliefs about the ease and effectiveness of chronic disease prevention habits such as: eating more fruits and vegetables, avoiding sugary drinks, good oral hygiene, and increasing physical activity.
Jeff Taekman: “Postpartum Hemorrhage Education Via Simulation”
An inter-professional team in the Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center (HSPSC) is pioneering the use of scalable and distributable healthcare simulation using commercial game technology with a multi-player module that specifically addresses postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). As a proof-of-concept for global health, the PPH simulation software will be used to address gaps in care at Mulago International Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and to decrease disparities in healthcare education. We will host inter-professional, interactive, games-based simulation training sessions from Durham to Mulago using the Internet. This pilot program aims to reduce the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, to serve as a broader model for using simulation to scale education and spread virtual learning through the developing world, and to collect preliminary data to support a future proposal to study the efficacy of screen-based/games-based learning in global health.
Key personnel include: Jeff Taekman (MD) who is the Principal Investigator, Megan Foureman (CRNA, MSN), Amy Mauritz (MD), Adeyemi Olufolabi (MB.BS; DCH; FRCA), Michael Steele (BS) and Genevieve DeMaria (BS).
Janet Schwartz, Dan Ariely: “Using Behavioral Science to Improve Linda Jamii Registration and Enrollment in Kenya”
Linda Jamii is a non-profit micro-insurance scheme that provides low and middle-income Kenyans with a financial savings mechanism for health insurance. As is the case in many emerging economies, formal insurance products can be slow to catch on because strong cultural norms guide people to rely more on communal support than formal insurance. Unfortunately, these communal mechanisms are not always enough to cover expenses and people must resort to selling property to finance healthcare. This makes emerging from poverty that much more difficult. This project’s goal is to leverage insights from the behavioral sciences to boost registration and continued enrollment in Linda Jamii health insurance.
