1. Webinar Presentation
Tuesday, June 19th
4PM ET
#myair

2. On Today’s Call
Denice
David Kevin
Jean-Luc
Shaw, Balshaw, Mobbs,
Neptune,
PhD
PhD
PhD
MD
Challenge Manager
Program Director
Innovation Program Senior Vice President
Manager, Europe
U.S. EPA Office U.S. National
of Research & Institute of Innocentive
Health 2.0
Development, Environmental
Innovation Team
Health Sciences
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3. Agenda for Today’s Meeting
§ Introduction
§ HHS/EPA Collaboration Goals
§ The Potential of Integrated Air/Health Sensing
§ An Overview of the My Air, My Health Challenge
§ Q&A About the Challenge
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4. Challenge Sponsors
§ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
§ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
§ National Institutes of Health, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
§ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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5. Collaboration Goals
“Better understand and leverage
connections between environmental
quality and public health”
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6. The Air-Health Intersection
§ Many connections supported by research
§ Many based on lab exposures or sensor
systems without direct linkage between
exposure and response
§ Wearable sensors linking exposure and
response can explore in more detail
§ Examples
§ Particulate Matter and asthma or arrythmia
§ CO and cardiac function
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7. The Potential of Personal Sensors
How can an
individual How does
minimize exposure vary
How do everyday
exposure while activities influence across vulnerable
still carrying out exposure and populations, by
everyday health?
location, or
activities?
between
individuals?
Within the area covered What is the temporal
by a single regulatory relationship between
monitor, how much exposure and
exposure variation exists?
physiological response?
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8. Key Opportunities
§ Data Integration
§ Connecting, visualizing, and analyzing data
across sources
§ Community Engagement
§ Customizing sensor combinations for local
needs
§ Collecting and responding to local input
§ Making sensors that fit individual lifestyles
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9. The Future of Sensors
§ Inexpensive, powerful sensors provide awareness of how
your air affects your health
§ Individuals and communities can:
§ Track specific pollutants of concern
§ Access detailed, personal, real-time air quality and health
information
§ Create tools that help citizens interpret and act on air
and health data
§ Enable individuals and health care professionals to
integrate the whole environment into care decisions
§ Access affordable, easy-to-use tools for change
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10. The Challenge
“Develop innovative solutions that connect timely,
location-specific air pollution data and human health
measurements to provide a more detailed picture of air
quality's impact on our health.”
§ This is a 2-phased Challenge
§ Sponsors have non-exclusive license to awarded
solutions (winners retain ownership)
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11. Expectations & Eligibility
§ Using existing sensor technologies or those
currently in development.
§ This challenge is open to anyone who is
§ an individual or team of U.S. citizens or
permanent residents of the United States.
§ Representing an entity incorporated in and
maintaining a primary place of business in the
United States
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12. Getting Started
Where to go:
§ @ challenge.gov
§ http://challenge.gov/HHS/372-my-air-my-health-challenge
§ Or directly to InnoCentive
§ www.innocentive.com/myairmyhealth
What to Do
§ Register as a Solver & agree to Challenge Terms & Conditions
§ View the full Challenge description & work within your Project
Room
§ Team Project Rooms are enabled!
§ Incentives for referrals!
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13. Challenge Awards
Challenge Phase 1 (Open)
§ Written Proposal
§ Up to 4 x $15,000 Awards
Challenge Phase 2 (Invitational)
§ Prototype Development & Proof of Concept Data
§ 1 x $100,000 Award
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14. Phase 1 - Deliverables
§ Written Proposal detailing:
§ Air pollutant(s) and linked physiological effect
§ Plans to create and test an integrated portable/
wearable system to measure pollutant and
linked physiology
§ Plans for data collection/analysis & transmission
to enable useful monitoring of connections
between air pollutants and health
§ How community input and population-specific
needs are met
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15. Phase 1 Review Criteria
§ Strength of evidence for air-health link (20)
§ Ability of tech to provide meaningful data (20)
§ Viability of plan for producing prototype (20)
§ Wearability/portability of device(s) (20)
§ Potential significance & benefit (10)
§ Viability of proposed proof-of-concept (5)
§ Use of community input (5)
Up to 4 finalists receive $15,000 each & an
invitation to participate in Phase 2
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16. Making Wearable = Usable
§ Needed for users to comply with data
collection requirements
§ Needed for scaling to larger populations
§ Ease of use
§ Comfort and flexibility
§ Accessibility
§ Aesthetics
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17. Phase 2
§ Four Finalists carry out Phase 1 plans
§ Finalists attend a development workshop
§ Receive feedback on designs
§ Access entrepreneurial resources
§ Include suggestions for future development
and scaling of systems
§ $100,000 for one winner
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18. Timeline
Oct 5
Nov 19
Phase 1 submissions Phase 2 Summer 2013
due
Opens
Winner announced
Nov 8 Finalists May 19, 2013
Announced
Phase 2
submissions due
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19. For More Information
http://challenge.gov/HHS/372-my-air-my-health-
challenge
§ Follow link to Innocentive site
§ Click “Register for Free”
§ Online help available for registered solvers
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