Narrative version with reference links is available on LinkedIn at: “State of Philanthropy: Finding Hope Among the 'Disaster' of Humanitarian Aid” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-philanthropy-finding-hope-among-disaster-aid-dr-chris-stout/

1. Methods of Humanitarian
Involvement
Chris Stout, PsyD
Founding Director
Center for Global Initiatives
Visiting Scholar
Chicago School of Professional Psychology

2. Humanitarian assistance is an
evergreen area of endeavor.
From my point of view, while there is
an overwhelming amount to do, there
are many willing to roll up their sleeves
in whatever literal or proverbial ways,
for example…

3. They can be general.

4. Or they can be very specific, like
obstetric fistula repair surgery in
postpartum African women.

5. They can be academic.

6. They can be in the field.

7. They can be in advocacy.

8. And they can be a combination.

9. Successes
and
Challenges

10. Infectious Disease
USAID
South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
Decreased newborn mortality via simplified treatment regimens with
antibiotics by infections in neonates.

11. Ebola
Oxfam found the importance of:
- An adequate number of
trained health workers;
- Available medicines;
- Robust health information
systems, including surveillance;
- Appropriate infrastructure;
- Sufficient public financing;
and
- A strong public sector to
deliver equitable, quality
services.

12. Vaccines
JAMA recently published another well-designed study
of 95,727 children and found “…no harmful association
between MMR vaccine receipt and ASD even among
children already at higher risk for ASD.”

13. Malaria
Improved diagnostic tests used in routine antenatal care
as well as more efficacious and safe drugs suitable
during pregnancy have decreased mother to fetus
malaria transmission.

14. Ways to make a
difference

15. Jobs
LinkedIn has a specific tool for looking to
work in the nonprofit arena.

16. Idealist’s mission is to “close the gap between intention and
action by connecting people, organizations, ideas, and resources.”
They have over 133,000 organizations involved with jobs,
internships, and now graduate programs.

17. Craig Zelizer, PhD and
Linda Johnston, PhD, co-
authored this career
guide based on
interviews with more
than 60 organizations and
practitioners.

18. Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with
nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system-
changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Ashoka Changemakers
accelerates social change by finding and connecting high-potential
individuals by using the power of global competitions and peer networks.
Since their inception they
have run 80+ competitions,
sourced more than 21,000
innovations, and channeled
more than $600 million in
direct investment to
innovators.

19. Volunteering

20. The basic idea is that doing good work and
helping others shouldn’t be so hard…

23. Boston Children's Hospital created HealthMap, a free tool
utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak
monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public
health threats — worldwide.
Users are delivered real-time intelligence on a broad range
of emerging infectious diseases, based on disparate data
sources that results in a unified and comprehensive view
of the current global state of infectious diseases and their
effect on human and animal health.

25. In a parallel way, Patrick Meier, PhD, examines
> Big (crisis) data,
> Social media,
> Satellite and aerial imagery,
> AI for disaster response, and more…

26. We developed a podcast to highlight
interesting people that all have a
humanitarian aspect to their lives or
work.

27. Reasons for Hope

28. The Gates Foundation is very bullish on global health
challenges.
Eradication guinea worm, river blindness, polio, and
elephantiasis by 2030.
Gates’ optimism is based on evidence from work (and
results) in Rwanda, Uganda, and Nepal, and elsewhere.
No small challenge in
breadth and depth, but I
must say, he’s pretty
convincing.

29. Scholarships
I put my money where my mouth is, and have founded
a modest scholarship for engineering and technology
students at my alma mater to travel abroad.

30. While demand will likely never diminish,
I’m happy to say that it seems that the
supply side may be building to help
address these needs.
I went into a fair amount of detail on this
in three volumes of my book-set, The New
Humanitarians.

32. Sabriye Tenberken &
Paul Kronenberg

33. Erik
Weihenmayer

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