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Executive director of IRD — Interactive Research and Development -- Aamir Khan dreams of using cellphones to improve the provision of healthcare in Pakistan and uses his experience in the field to share his work with technology. About the speaker Aamir Khan is an epidemiologist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He trained in medicine at the Aga Khan University and in public health at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is associate faculty. He is the founder and Executive Director of IRD since 2004, a research enterprise committed to improving global health and development through the use of appropriate technologies. Aamir also directs the Indus Hospital Research Center in Karachi. In addition to his work in Pakistan, Aamir has led large-scale surveys and established research studies in Tajikistan, the United States, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil over the past 15 years. Aamir is co-founder of the Innovations in International Health (IIH) program based at the D-Lab at MIT and is a founding member of the openXdata.org consortium. He leads the End-User Requirements group on the OMEVAC (open source mobile data collection for vaccine trials) and mVAC (mobile innovations in recording child vaccination and health data in immunization registers) grants based at the University of Bergen. IRD’s in-house mobile phone system (Interactive Alerts for Childhood Pneumonia) is a winning entry in the Design Triennial at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New
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Date Found: July 15, 2011
Date Produced: July 15, 2011
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July 18, 2011
Luis von Ahn, the man who brought the world CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA unveiled his newest and most innovative project to date: Duolingo. How can you translate the entire internet and do it for free? Duolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world ...
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July 18, 2011
Michealene Risley shares with us her incredible story on how she gave up a comfortable life as a corporate executive and traveled to Zimbabwe to document some of the most heartbreaking and unfortunately events that are happening to women and little girls. Learning through her own experiences ...
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#160; ---Comment les Protéines Vous Aident à Brûler la Graisse. Manger des sources saines de protéine est un excellent moyen de perdre de la graisse et de construire du muscle. Regardez cette vidéo pour découvrir exactement quelle source de protéine vous aidera à voir la perte de poids et le ...
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July 15, 2011
Proposing to bring an end to corruption, one petty case at a time, Zubair Bhatti discusses the Jhang model and how its implementation by the government can result in reduced levels of corruption at minor levels. About the speaker Image: Zubair K BhattiZubair is The Asia Foundation’s Director of ...
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July 15, 2011
In this impassioned talk, Dr. Usmani demos the Usmani-Kirk Model by plotting an imaginary suicide attack. While sharing his vision to fight terrorism in Pakistan, he astutely comments on the current state of affairs with a tongue-in-cheek manner. About the speaker Dr. Usmani is a Fulbright ...
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