Dr. Chris Stout gave a presentation on creative humanitarian approaches to poverty alleviation and sustainability. He discussed his experiences on medical missions that showed him the impacts of poverty on health. Diseases of poverty refer to preventable illnesses caused by lack of access to things like clean water, nutrition, and healthcare. Over 30,000 children die daily from such diseases. However, proven strategies to reduce poverty and its effects include economic development, education, technology, and sustainable development. Dr. Stout then shared examples of organizations doing innovative work in these areas, like providing medical supplies and training community health workers in rural villages in India and Africa.

1. Creative Humanitarian Approaches To
Poverty Alleviation And Sustainability:
Examples From The Field
Dr Chris Stout
Center for Global Initiatives &
College of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago

2. Who’s here today?
Academics?
Psychologists?
Social Workers?
Policy experts?
People who like to raise their hands…?

3. My professional/academic
journey here was a little curvy…

5. Books, Books, Books….

9. Today, I focus on global health.
On my first international medical
mission, I saw what the disease of
poverty look like…

10. Halong Bay, Vietnam

11. “Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that
are the result of neglect in poverty
stricken communities.
As for prevalence…

12. ~30,000 children die each day due to
preventable diseases caused by poverty.

13. 500,000 children become blind each year
from malnutrition.

14. 1.8 million people die annually from
preventable diarrheal diseases.

15. While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention
strategies include:
Economic development
Ending military conflict
Developing education models – especially for females
Technology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g.,
markets for goods)
Fostering sustainable development

16. My not-so-professional (accidental)
journey here…

19. Tanzania…

23. William Rosenblatt, MD
REcovered
Medical
Equipment
Developing
Y (world)

24. Sabriye Tenberken &
Paul Kronenberg

25. Erik
Weihenmayer

26. International Institute for
Social Entrepreneurs

27. Soweto, South Africa

29. Geek Corps
Ethan Zuckerman

30. Sustainable Sciences Institute

31. .
Drs. Raj and Mabelle
Arole
Shobha Arole, MD

32. Infant Mortality Rate
Reduction
86.36%
Maternal Health
Antenatal Care
Safe Delivery
Family Planning
0.5%
<0.5%
<1.0%
100%
100%
65%
Children under 5
Immun.(DPT, polio)
Malnutr. (wt for age)
0.5%
40%
87%
<1%
TB (prev./1000) 18 1.2
Changes in Health
Indicators (1971-2006)
TB patients treated 9,621
Tube-wells for safe
drinking water
198
Plant nurseries – villages 203
Check dams 223
Houses built for poor
people
283
Women involved in credit
program
6,064
Training in Community-
Based Health (since 1983)
 Persons from India
 Persons from other
countries
17,661
1,911
Overview of Activities
(1970 – 2006)

33. Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD

34. Marie Charles, MD

35. Witness.

36. A word is worth 1/1000th of a picture…

37. Witness

38. Scojo Foundation.

40. Mother Theresa once said:
“If you cannot feed one-hundred,
then feed just one.”

42. Bolivian Prisons (and Clark)

47. Sometimes you can at least solve
part of the problem….

49. I was always frustrated with the
disconnect of getting helpful
information and tools to those
that needed it.

50. So I have been doing some
experimenting….

57. Accelerants…
It’s about:

59. Results…
It’s about:

60. A kindergarten is born

64. Collaborations
It’s about:

70. THANKS
KEEP IN TOUCH
GO DO
For Having Me
DrChrisStout.com
Great Things…!