WiRED International
| Founder | Gary Selnow, Ph.D. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Type | 501(3)(c) non-profit organization |
| Location | Montara, CA |
| Services | Providing health information to underserved communities of the world |
| Fields | Health Information, Global Health |
| Key people | Dr. Gary Selnow (Director) & WiRED Governing Board |
| Slogan | To address health knowledge inequality |
| Mission Statement | WIRED International is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that provides vital medical information and education to underserved communities in regions challenged by war, poverty and dislocation. WiRED’s Community Health Information Libraries offer medical and health information enabling physicians and nurses, community health workers and individuals in developing areas of the world to address the prevention and treatment of infectious and non-communicable disease. All WiRED’s resources—online and on portable media—are cost-free to users. |
| Websites | http://www.wiredinternational.org/ http://www.wiredhealthresources.net/ |
WiRED International is a 501(c)(3)non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that has been delivering medical and health information to war-affected and underserved regions since 1997.
WiRED International’s goal is to address the severe global inequality of health knowledge.
WiRED International provides health information to underdeveloped areas by delivering programs, equipment and coordinated health education. Over the years, the organization has opened facilities in 15 countries, while NGOs, medical schools and hospitals in many additional countries have adopted its programs for community health education. The organization serves remote regions and, when appropriate, supplies laptops, projectors, solar equipment and complete health education libraries.
All WiRED International’s resources—online and on portable media—are cost-free to users.
WiRED International’s educational programs are technology-based. Starting in the 1990s, the organization stored programs on floppy disks and CD-ROMS and today relies on the Internet and flash drives. With this technology, people can put hundreds of training programs in their pockets, to take beyond the grid. These programs can be run on portable laptops and projectors for group presentations.
In 2009, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health awarded WiRED International its Organizational Public Health Hero Award. WiRED earned the award “for its achievements in using information technology to provide up-to-date health education and medical information in developing, post-conflict, and isolated regions of the world.”
Site: http://www.wiredhealthresources.net
In 2011, WiRED International launched this virtual Center which draws intellectual content and resources from regions of abundance, processes it for new audiences and distributes that information to regions of scarcity. This project is funded in large part by Medtronic Philanthropy.
The WiRED International e-library of more than 300 medical and health education modules enables physicians and nurses, patients, health workers and communities to address the prevention and treatment of both infectious and non-communicable disease in developing areas of the world. The more than 300 topics as diverse as maternal health and hand washing, rheumatic heart disease and Ebola, clean water strategies and home caregiver training.
In 2014 WiRED International expanded the global reach of its programs by creating a “Filling Station.” This is a tool that provides file synchronization (or syncing), whereby a person’s computer can upload data from a master file in an automatic process that adds new or changed material. Thus, the Filling Station allows instant updating of the entire community health education (CHE) e-library from any Internet access point in the world.
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