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Ebola Brochure
A foldable brochure designed to restrict the spreading of Ebola virus in West Africa.
USAID'S Rajiv Shah thanks the OpenIDEO Community
Dr. Rajiv Shah USAID Administrator shares the highlights from our Fighting Ebola Challenge, thanks the OpenIDEO community for their innovative research , ideas and collaboration and gives an insight into how they are helping these efforts turn into
Happy from Conakry
Check out this groundbreaking video that's boldly shifting the dynamic of conversation -- straight from the grounds of my beloved Guinea!
Daily Talk: Civic Education and News Distribution to Check Ebola
The Daily Talk is an accessible, simple, and low-cost tool that provides citizens with a key media resource and serves as a crucial medium to facilitate access to information in a society where newspapers are a luxury and internet penetration is extr
Empathetic and Efficient PPE
How can Ebola be more personable? How to make gear donning/doffing faster and safer? How to extend/optimize operational time? A redesign of the face mask that tackles the problem of alienation felt by patients while retaining safety measures and
Temporary Permanence: Distributed skin and frame structures for Ebola treatment
Never before have we seen so much money being sent to west Africa, and it would be a shame to see all of this money being spent on only immediate issues and not address the future healthcare infrastructure of the affected countries. Ebola is a proble
Ebola Connect
This project aims to facilitate community-based Ebola care for communities which are remote from Ebola treatment units (ETUs), by providing access to (1) public health scale information via ETU-based radio broadcasts and (2) symptom assessment (and
Innovative solutions for making protective masks, gloves, and suits more comfortable to wear and simpler and safer to remove.
This idea is an improved design of the protective equipment used by medical workers in West Africa working with Ebola infected patients. Our objective is to maintain a cool body temperature and increase comfort while operating within the protective e
Breaking Down the Barrier
Our proposal acknowledges the unfortunate consequence of quarantine, which is that patients become not only physically, but psychologically isolated from their community. Additionally, the PPE required for treating patients is dehumanizing, frighteni
Patient-centric GIS app to track real-time hospital bed availability and support services integrated with interactive forum for patients and survivors.
While there have been several efforts across governments and partners to build a more robust response to the Ebola epidemic in the three West African affected countries, there are still gaps particularly those related to scaling of care-seeking behav
Gloves Against Ebola - taking them from the prototype to the medical tent
How to take off gloves without producing additional biological contamination ? This design allows to take off gloves without touching them.
Hands safe. Opening taps with feet.
We need collaboration to develop this idea. Let's turn that idea into a product, a kind of kit that can be adapted to the taps of the regions that fight Ebola. I watched the videos on the removal of PPE people need to use the water several times a
Ventilation Systems for Aid Workers
Our idea is trying to solve the problem that healthcare workers suffer from heat exhaustion. The PPE traps heat and moisture, which causes severe overheating and loss of body fluids through sweating; a worker can only be in the PPE for 40-60 minutes
Practitioner Pod /Patient Pod
A personal containment system that combines protective coverings with caregiving architecture eliminates multiple points of potential virus transmission between health workers and ebola patients. This idea is a personal containment system, for both P
Resilience Through Education
PROJECT DESCRIPTION Utilizing a deployable structure as a community center supports and educates patient families and recovered patients during and after treatment. Goals: Create community programs using existing structures to: — Educate & ent
Family Care Ebola Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to be self explanatory however distribution is accomplished through local leaders, aid organizations and governments. It is intended to prevent the spread of Ebola to family members caring for loved ones by providing personal
Idea for preventing infection through the safe removal of hazmat suits (PPE)
Prototype new attachments and system for the safe removal of PPE (personal protective equipment/hazmat) suits. Illness and death through self contamination while disrobing is far too common with Ebola and needs to be dealt with. It's my hope thi
Does it matter that in the 21st century some have no access to sanitation? : Ivory tower method meets grassroots compassion
Design suggestions pouring from people’s hearts, have plastered the open ideo pages like one soulful prayer for those in West Africa, who have been ever-present in the minds of the teams. The proposals for solutions seem to be “seeping up” to the fi
Here is a list of ideas that I thought could help and then my own ideas.
I shared two ideas. FIRST was a redesign of the PPE (to make a cooler, breathable material extremely hydrophobic) because we know that ebola is only contracted through the exchange of fluids. The suit would be much like a divers but made of a differe
Scientific support to gather data and evaluate designs
I look for scientists that are willing to share their knowledge on a short term base
A surgeon - Architect
In my country Peru, where the problem of ebola in the world showed up, we realized that none of the hospitals was prepared for the control of this disease. As I was participating in OpenIDEO with my design to leave the uncontaminated "protective sui
