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Recent Activity
August 2010: WiRED’s New CHIC Program Impacts Population Health
in Kenya
No medication or medical device can do as much to promote good health in remote regions as a population’s knowledge of good health practices. For the people of Kisumu, Kenya, WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) provide the only source of basic health information, especially HIV/AIDS prevention. Read more >
August 2010—Series: Volunteers Who Contribute
Michael Constantine
Actor Michael Constantine has starred in eminent roles throughout his career and proved himself to be a jack of all trades, but has never forgotten about others in the world. From his rise to fame on Broadway and television to his epic role in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” he has truly done it all. Read more >
July 2010: WiRED Revitalizes the CHIC Program in Kenya
Work is underway to revitalize the Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) program in Kenya. Using technology upgraded since the program's beginning nearly nine years ago, WiRED is supplying new computers and educational material in two of its facilities in Kisumu. Read more >
June 2010: WiRED Connects Five New Medical Information Centers
in Central America
When orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Juaquin Corvera, diagnoses a patient and performs the necessary surgery, his long experience generally enables him to handle the procedures deftly. So, over the years his training and first-hand experience have served him and his patients well. Read more >
June 2010—Series: Volunteers Who Contribute
Angela Woon
For volunteer Angela Woon, working with WiRED International has not only allowed her (albeit virtually) to satisfy her wanderlust, but to gain a new perspective on remote countries, cultures, and the problems they face. Read more >
May 2010: WiRED Launches Newly Designed Features of ITN
in Central America
Five new Medical Information Centers (MICs) opening in Central America June 4-10, 2010, will link to a newly refined, online resource that provides a wealth of medical information for doctors in developing countries. In addition to supplying the computers and other necessary equipment, WiRED will launch a new information and training tool from the International Telemedicine Network (ITN) education portal. Read more >
May 2010—Series: Volunteers Who Contribute
Val, Chet and Emily Bardo
The adage goes “the family that plays together stays together.” And so it must hold true too when it comes to the family that volunteers together. Just ask Val, Chet and Emily Bardo, a close-knit family who not only share their love of the outdoors and animals but volunteering at WiRED, too. Read more >
Apr. 2010—Series: Volunteers Who Contribute
Bess Touma
If WiRED created the position of full-time volunteer, it would proudly bestow it on Bess Touma. A volunteer from January 2001 to December 2007, Touma was instrumental in WiRED’s development and worked tirelessly almost full time without pay, according to WiRED founder Dr. Gary Selnow. Read more >
Mar. 2010—Series: Spotlighting WiRED Around the World
Santiago Castellon
Early in 2001, in Leon, Nicaragua, Santiago Castellon opened the Ben Linder café. This small restaurant and bar served organic coffee and healthy meals, but it needed something more to draw in customers. Residents of Leon also needed something more—access to the Internet. So Castellon and his partners decided that the Ben Linder would become a cyber café. Read more >
Mar. 2010—Series: Volunteers Who Contribute
Ann Britton, Graphic Designer
When describing her graphic design career, Ann Britton unpretentiously calls herself lucky—lucky to have a graphic designer visit her junior high class and help illuminate her career path, lucky to get an "in" working with Nike, lucky to have an interesting stable of clients. Read more >
Feb. 2010—Series: Spotlighting WiRED Around the World
Che Pangborn
Jumping on a plane, Che Pangborn was headed to Croatia for a few weeks of vacation in 1998. Or so he thought.
Little did Pangborn know that his first trip outside the United States would turn out to be the stepping stone for his journey into volunteerism with WiRED International, one that would last for several years. Read more >
Jan. 2010: 17th U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona
Joins WiRED Board
This month, WiRED is honored to welcome the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, to its board. Read more >
Jan. 2010—Series: Spotlighting WiRED Around the World
Zgjim Limani, M.D.
When Zgjim Limani, M.D. studied medicine at the University of Prishtina in Kosova during a post-war period, the school had to be rebuilt after severe vandalism by outside aggressors and the bombing raid by NATO. The Balkans had been isolated for two decades by the many wars in the area. “This impacted our health system, too,” says Dr. Limani. Read more >
Nov. 2009: 2009 Honor Air
WiRED founding board member, Dr. Richard Gilbert, is a World War II veteran who recently enjoyed an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC. to see the WWII Memorial. Rotarians, who supported the formative work of WiRED in the Balkans and Central America, are sending vets on similar trips to Washington from all over America. Read more >
Oct. 2009: WiRED Welcomes New Board Member
WiRED is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member, Anthony Hodge, who is the retired president of Anthony Hodge & Associates, an executive search firm serving a wide range of industries and functional areas. Read more >
Aug. 2009: Battling HIV/AIDS in Kenya—revitalizing WiRED programs.
This month, WiRED launches a special fundraising campaign to renew its successful prevention program in Kenya by refurbishing four Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) in and around Nairobi. WiRED plans to enhance its prevention program in Kenya with new computers and educational material. Read full story >
Aug. 2009: Battling HIV/AIDS in Kenya—CHICs' lasting impact.
“Before the WiRED CHIC was set up in Butula, no young person had ever seen a computer, except for those who had traveled out of the village,” Mary Makokha told me when we met early this week. “In fact, because of the WiRED CHIC, many young people from Butula decided to go and study IT.” Read full story >
Jul. 2009: WiRED releases two videos.
There’s a saying that those who like films and sausages should never see how they’re made. A lot more happens behind the scenes than is readily visible. At the risk of wrecking the magic, we’d like to share a little about what went into the two video introductions now posted on the WiRED and ITN websites. Read full story >
Jul. 2009: Clayton's story.
Soon after Kate Mayer started her work with WiRED, we all learned that her 13-year-old son, Clayton, had biphenotypic leukemia, a particularly rare form of the disease. Read full story >
May 2009: WiRED in Kenya—
Reflections on the past, hopes for the future.
Over the last seven years, an estimated one million Kenyans have had access to accurate information about HIV/AIDS and other critical health-related topics thanks to WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers (CHICs). As WiRED makes plans to refurbish and update five CHICs in this country, we reflect on our past work and goals for the future. Read full story >
Apr. 2009: Kosova Hosts Landmark International Medical Conference
When Zgjim Limani, MD, a physician specializing in ear, nose and throat (ENT) medicine, and his colleagues wanted to put together an international medical symposium in Prishtina, Kosova, they asked if WiRED could help arrange a teleconference from the United States. Dr. Limani had worked with WiRED in the past and knew about the newly formed International Telemedicine Network (ITN). Read full story >
Mar. 2009: WiRED receives Berkeley Public Health Hero Award.
The University of California, Berkeley, recently selected WiRED International as the School of Public Health's 2009 Organizational Public Health Hero. Berkeley recognized WiRED for "its achievements in using information technology to provide up-to-date health education and medical information to individuals in developing, post-conflict, and isolated regions of the world." Read full story >
Jan. 2009: WiRED receives grant from the Medtronic Foundation.
In January, WiRED International received a $50,000 grant from the Medtronic Foundation to support organizational elements of the International Telemedicine Network (ITN). The ITN is a consortium of 13 medical schools, teaching hospitals, research institutes, and non-profit organizations partnering to improve world health by providing medical education to healthcare communities in developing regions of the world. Read full story >
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