Possible Research Topics

Possible Research Items

1. Health Cividata
Public information like Wikipedia, Google Maps, Wikimapia, allow citizens to make better-informed decisions.
How can Philippine health data be crowdsourced, pooled, and opensourced into a highly mashable format so that more civic groups can participate in health governance and service delivery
http://www.citizenwater.org/search/

2. Indigenous health –
-Estimated 3M indigenous people in the country
- Many are marginalized economically, geographically, and culturally by the mainstream health system

3. Business continuity
- Swine flu, TB, and other emerging infectious diseases are a significant threat to business continuity, esp. call centers
- What industry leadership mechanisms are available/needed to make businesses more responsive /resilient in the face of potential epidemics?

4. Solar Disinfection of Water Feasible as a Philippine Policy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwivMQkAcfg

5. SMS-based water tapping solution - The local water utility in NCR loses 50% of its water to illegal water tapping. This also reduces water pressure, which results in increased contamination of water in the pipes. Some sonar-based phone device exists in Africa, but it needs to be retooled for Philippines
http://www.advancedinformation.net/water-monitoring.html

6. Telemedicine
There's plenty of work to be done on telemedicine through pharmacies, sari-sari stores, schools, etc
http://clickdiagnostics.com/knowledgecenter.html

How can we implement this with Hapinoy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokgAtxefao

7. Sugar is the OS on the One Laptop per Child project
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2255304751539750822

There is a team putting Sugar on a USB stick, so that a child can bring his OS-apps-documents around in a USB stick.

Sugar-Takbo is a Sugar-based app that coaches a pupil on self health care loosely based on the video below
http://newmed.media.mit.edu/projects/?collaborhythm

8. Alternative budgeting

9. Micro certification registry

10. FilAm Legacy health fund
- There are 17t Filipino MDs and 100t nurses in the US
- 501c-3 and mission related investments allow tax deductible donations for the Philippines health system
- How can 1 billion PhP endowment be raised to catalyze FilAm-Filipino innovations in health?

11. Sowatch and prov investment plan

12. Celedu for health
Put links

13. Tb offsets
Put links

14. MDR Island – expected 14,000 MSR cases in

15. Voices for Health
Many sectors are marginalized in the Philippine Health system, ex: Indigenous people, fisherfolk,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEPV-NTeZs

16. Monitoring private sector health facilities