How to Set Up a Community Health Venture: Lessons from 10 Years in Kenya

Autor: Khanjan Mehta, Irena Gorski, Phoebe Canagarajah, Stephen Suffian, Joshua T. Bram

Publikováno v: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship. 11:72-86

Despite high potential, many community health ventures in developing countries fail to evolve beyond the pilot stage. A fundamental problem is that many ventures utilize community health workers (CHWs) as volunteers, but they leave to generate a livi

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Leveraging informal lending mechanisms to facilitate technology transfer and microenterprise in developing countries

Autor: Stephen Suffian, Khanjan Mehta, Jin Ju Kim, Kory Hansen

Publikováno v: Technology in Society. 41:65-75

This article discusses how Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs or merry-go-rounds) can concurrently overcome four challenges faced by small enterprises in developing communities: access to financial capital, technology transfer, vertical

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2014.12.001

Enabling Micro-level Demand-Side Grid Flexiblity in Resource Constrained Environments

Autor: Diego Ponce de Leon Barido, Eric Brewer, Daniel M. Kammen, Javier Rosa, Stephen Suffian

Publikováno v: IoTDI
Baridó, DPDL; Suffian, S; Rosa, J; Brewer, EA; & Kammen, DM. Abdelzaher, TF; Kumar, PR; Buchmann, AP; & Lu, C eds. (2017). Enabling Micro-level Demand-Side Grid Flexiblity in Resource Constrained Environments.. IoTDI, 233-245. doi: 10.1145/3054977.3054984. UC Berkeley: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3fd969cw
De Leon Barido, DP; Suffian, S; Rosa, J; Brewer, E; & Kammen, DM. (2017). Enabling micro-level demand-side grid flexiblity in resource constrained environments. Proceedings-2017 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, IoTDI 2017 (part of CPS Week), 233-245. doi: 10.1145/3054977.3054984. UC Berkeley: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8jc7t5j9

© 2017 ACM. The increased penetration of uncertain and variable renewable energy presents various resource and operational electric grid challenges 1 . Micro-level (household and small commercial) demand-side grid flexibility could be a cost-effecti

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A Typology of Revenue Models for Community Health Worker Programs

Autor: Stephanie Jeong, Meryn Robinson, Stephen Suffian, Khanjan Mehta, Richard Zang

Publikováno v: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship. 9:93-105

Community Health Workers (CHWs), a presence in almost every developing country, have proven instrumental in improving their communities’ health. CHWs in most countries are volunteers relying on programs with marginal government support and irregula

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https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v9i2.5452

Demonstrating demand for preventive health services in rural Kenya

Autor: Rachel Dzombak, Jeffrey D. Lackey, Stephen Suffian, Khanjan Mehta

Publikováno v: Journal of Humanitarian Engineering, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2015)

Developing countries like Kenya suffer from a severe lack of healthcare professionals. Access to primary care is further limited when large distances must be travelled for basic medical care, and often times the decision to seek professional help is

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