[HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

Sat Jan 31 10:45:41 UTC 2015

Hi Stace,
Glad to meet you. I am Ahasan from Dhaka Bangladesh, I am here expanding
the OSM in Bangladesh and trying to build up OSM community for about two
years. I have been providing OSM training to a lot of university and
college students, NGO workers and Govt officials to pupularize OSM. Here
the volunteers are enthusiastic, dynamic. They want more and more field
based practice what can be possible only with a organized initiative. As
example the Opencity Dhaka project of world bank where about 30 students
mapped <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/257375894#map=16/23.7166/90.4084>
three wards of old dhaka city and a recent Missing Maps Project in
Hazaribagh
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/257375894#map=16/23.7380/90.3690> and
KamrangirChar
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/257375894#map=16/23.7380/90.3690> sub
district what were coordinated by Pete Masters and Jorieke Vyncke. By two
weeks time about 20-30 volunteers completed field based survey to map these
area.

Glad to know that you want to commence a mapping in Kendua upazila of
Netrokona. I think its possible to do with our OSM mappers here. Please
visit our OSM Bangladesh face book group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/152627941462625/> where you would see our
activities. Some more training and mapping parties I am planning to
organize in near future by our community.
For your project area we can use them and it is also possible to train up
the local community there to finish it. Please let me know what you are
thinking and the update from your side sothat I can announce it among our
OSM mappers accordingly.

Thanks and Regards

Ahasan
Cell: +88017 8439 8739

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Ahasanul Hoque

*GIS & Environmental Data Mgt SpecialistWSP, **The World Bank.*
MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh.
*Diploma in Disaster Mgt & Humanitarian Response* |
Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio& Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand*.*
*''Env.Sanitation and Waste Management in Developing Countries'| *CES,
UGENT- Belgium.
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Stacey Maples <stacemaples at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm working with a faculty member studying the efficacy of mobile app
> based interventions, who needs detailed street and building footprints for
> his pilot. He is working in the Kendua sub-district of Bangladesh,
> initially, and needs data for health workers to use to identify cholera
> patients homes/home village, pharmacies, etc... I've pasted his abstract,
> below. If he finds efficacy, he will likely expand the project to other
> sub-districts. We are wondering several things:
>
> First, what is the process to have a project added to the Task Manager?
>
> Second, do you happen to currently have mappers in this area who could
> work on this?
>
> Finally, we may be able to obtain gps traces from food delivery drivers to
> upload to OSM. It would be great to have a training for them if there are
> mappers in the area, or in Dhaka who would be willing to travel. Wondering
> who to contact about the possibility of that (I know bulk uploads are
> frowned upon unless coordinated with OSM).
>
> Thanks in advance for your time, I've pasted the abstract for the project,
> below my signature.
>
>
> In F,L&T,
> Stace Maples
> Geospatial Manager
> Stanford Geospatial Center
> @mapninja
> staceymaples at G+
> Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/  <https://gis.stanford.edu/>
> "I have a map of the United States... actual size.
> It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile."
> I spent last summer folding it."
> -Steven Wright-
>
>
> Leveraging mobile technology to improve clinical outcomes and scientific
> research of the second leading cause of childhood death: diarrheal disease
>
> Abstract
> Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death among children
> under 5 years of age globally. We are specifically interested in the
> diarrheal disease cholera because of the devastating impact the disease has
> on at-risk populations and the emerging opportunities to leverage mobile
> technology to overcome fundamental clinical, epidemiologic, and scientific
> challenges. Despite effective treatments and advances in provider
> education, cholera case fatality rates remain unacceptably high.
> Conventional methods have been unable to overcome barriers to provide
> patients timely access to care in resource-poor settings. This is
> especially true early in outbreaks because response teams are slow to
> mobilize and cholera can infect, transmit and kill in less than 20 hours.
> Our research challenge is to take an unconventional approach to develop a
> new method using mobile technology to identify outbreak clusters early,
> improve care, and advance our basic understanding of the disease. The
> specific aims of this project are to (i) develop mobile technology for
> clinical decision support and real-time epidemiology, (ii) test the
> mobile-technology and determine microbial correlates to disease progression
> at the hospital level, and (iii) test the mobile-technology and determine
> microbial correlates to disease progression at the community level. We
> chose to develop and test this strategy in partnership with the Ministry of
> Health of Bangladesh at a site with high cholera morbidity and relatively
> high mortality. We anticipate this NIH funded research will provide an
> exciting cross-departmental forum for collaboration and training, as well
> as a pathway to discovery that will directly benefit populations inflicted
> with diseases like cholera.
>
> Eric Jorge Nelson, MD PhD
> Pediatric Global Health Physician Scientist Instructor,
> Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Pediatrics,
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> Email: eric.nelson.mdphd at gmail.com
> Telephone: (857)-492-2174
> Address: Beckman B241, School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5323
>
>
>
> In F,L&T,
> Stace Maples
> Geospatial Manager
> Stanford Geospatial Center
> @mapninja
> staceymaples at G+
>
> Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/
>
> "I have a map of the United States... actual size.
> It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile."
> I spent last summer folding it."
> -Steven Wright-
>
>
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