Greetings from the middle of the world: Quito, Ecuador. By way of background, I’m spending my summer
with The Quito Project, a group of medical students and public health students
that are working on projects ranging from chronic disease research to
depression screening. I’m working on
Proyecto Telesalud (Telesalud), a mobile device intervention that seeks to
improve follow-up care for new mothers and their babies. My role is to help enroll patients in our
randomized control trial as well as develop a cost/benefit analysis for the
intervention.
Thus far, we’ve have been busy getting our the logistics of
the survey organized, training Ecuadorian medical students in the enrollment
process, and coordinating with the appropriate administrators for health center
and hospital access. Additionally, the
University of Michigan organized a great conference on eHealth and Chronic
Disease Conference at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (more on that
in another post). The passion that the
presenters and attendees exhibited for global health was inspiring. Furthermore it was interesting to see how
presenters from various countries in the Americas were tackling similar
problems in different ways.
All of The Quito Project members are living in a rented
house in Southern Quito, I’ll post more later on some of the quirks to life in
Southern Quito but thus far its been a blast.
I look forward to reading more about the adventures of the other WDI
fellows and keeping everyone abreast on the notable goings on here in Quito.
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