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Joel Selanikio
Joel Selanikio
"Washington"
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- CEO and co-founder
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Named by Internet Evolution to their 2010 IE100 list of key internet influencers, and by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful innovators of 2009, Joel Selanikio is a winner of the 2009 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare IT. His work has been reported on by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and the Washington Post, among others. He is a sought-after speaker, a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and a participant in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the annual Renaissance Weekend retreat.
A practicing pediatrician, former Wall Street computer consultant, and former CDC epidemiologist with a passion for combining technology and public health to address inequities in developing countries, Dr. Selanikio leads DataDyne.org's pioneering efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health and international development, including the award-winning EpiSurveyor mobile data collection project.
In his former role as an officer of the Public Health Service, Dr. Selanikio served as the Chief of Operations for the HHS Secretary's Emergency Command Center in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2005, he was given the Haverford Award for Humanitarian Service for his work in treating tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia (for which he was profiled in the Washington Post).
Dr. Selanikio holds a bachelor's degree from Haverford College, and an MD from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship of the CDC. He continues to practice clinical pediatrics both as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and on the Emergency Response Team of the International Rescue Committee, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Little known fact: Dr. Selanikio has a landspeeder named for him in the Star Wars universe.
History
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- 2 years 50 weeks
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iPhone EpiSurveyor submitted to Apple
Happy to report that the iPhone version of EpiSurveyor has been submitted to Apple for approval. Can't wait: it's a great little app, and it makes data collection and form management a breeze.
National Geographic: Mobile phones and the power of data collection
Happy to add a piece on "Mobile phones and the power of data collection" to Ken Banks' "Mobile Message" series at the National Geographic.
True Innovation in ICT4D: Time to Apply Some Metrics
Stanford Social Innovation Review recently posted a "sponsored supplement" about mHealth. Mostly the article lists a variety of the mHealth projects we've all heard about: Text to Change, Medic Mobile, TracNet, and also DataDyne's own EpiSurveyor. The point of the article was that we can and should identify the many innovations created in the developing world, and use them as models for innovation here in the US:
Quantifying Real Costs for Development Projects
John Sauer of Water for Life has a great piece today at the Huffington Post today on estimating the real, ongoing costs of providing a WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) system -- the "life-cycle costs".
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