WiRED International is pleased to announce that Jack Condon, Ph.D., has joined our Advisory Board. Dr. Condon is a senior information technology professional whose broad expertise includes system architecture, project management, application development, and extensive hands-on programming across all levels of system components.
Three new Community Health Information (CHI) centers are now up and running in Quilalí and Chinandega, Nicaragua, and Marcovia, Honduras. Upgraded CHI libraries are also installed in Kisumu, Kenya.
Known for his emphasis on civic engagement and the application of university expertise to community issues, Robert A. Corrigan, Ph.D. has served as San Francisco State University’s 12th president since 1988.
WiRED International is partnering with a team of physicians in Australia to create a project with potential for global medical benefits. Funded by the Medtronic Foundation, this series will train doctors and nurses around the world.
WiRED Board Member Virgil Scudder’s new book—World Class Communications: How Great CEOs Win with the Public, Shareholders, Employees, and the Media—will be published October 8, 2012.
Most children in the United States and other Western countries are screened for congenital heart defects when they are born and during their first year of life. Once detected, these heart defects can often be corrected, and the children go on to lead normal, healthy lives.
Congratulations to our 10-year veteran staffer Lillian Dajoh on the birth of her beautiful son, Yarn Oloo! Yarn was born on April 5, 2012, weighing in at 3.5 Kg., and he joins siblings Brandy Oloo (age 9) and Ray Erick Oloo (age 4).
Carolyn Wallin and Veronica Ades have never met, but both women recently took the same innovative action to save lives in Africa: They personally delivered donated laptops and WiRED Community Health Information (CHI) e-libraries to medical professionals in developing regions of Tanzania and Uganda.
Remember the time you had strep throat as a kid? How much your throat hurt, how you had to go to the doctor and take medicine for over a week and stay home from school until you were better? That was no fun, to be sure, but if that’s what happened to you when you caught strep throat as a child, you can consider yourself very fortunate. In the United States, strep throat is treated, and that’s the end of the story.
WiRED International’s Honorary Board is an interdisciplinary group of extraordinary individuals who are committed to our mission of sharing critical medical information with impoverished communities worldwide.