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<p>Hello HOTOSM team,</p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 11.5pt;">I'm Jeff Blossom, a GIS Manager with the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 11.5pt;">I'm working with a Dr. Daniel <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Palazuelos, who is
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doing a long term health surveillance in West Africa, and has expressed the mapping need below:</span></span></span></p>
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recent Ebola epidemic in west Africa was unprecedented. Critical to the response at that time was accurate mapping of the most affected households in the most affected areas. Partners In Health is a Boston-based nongovernmental organization that began working
in Liberia and Sierra Leone to assist in the disaster response at the time, but has now made a long-term commitment to building functioning health systems in these countries so that the next Ebola epidemic does not occur. </span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">We are looking for volunteers who can help map beneficiary communities in our catchment area, starting with Harper and Pleebo, Liberia. The goal would
then be to use these detailed community maps to create public health strategies where local community health workers can perform regular outreach campaign to households to be sure that people are healthy, and connected to growing clinical services."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">What is the process to get this mapping request considered?</span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">Jeff Blossom</span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University</span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121">1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138</span></p>
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