March 16 - Chalo!

Nomoshkar, Asaalam! This is just a quick travel blog to help me record some thoughts on this trip to Bangladesh.

A little background on this whole experience:

I'm a third year medical student from Stanford University, currently taking a class at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known more affectionately on campus as the d.School. The course, entitled Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, brings together interdisciplinary teams of graduate students (from schools of business, medicine, engineering, product design, environmental studies, international studies, etc.) and challenges them to develop low-cost devices and services for use in the developing world. My particular team is working with the International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) to build/improve a bubble CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) device for use with pediatric pneumonia patients.

For some background, please see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpTVfmTmEV0&feature=player_embedded#at=27

My travel partners for this trip include two members of my immediate team:

Pamela: MBA Carey: Mechanical Engineering

as well as the sole representative of another team developing a parallel CPAP device:

David: MD


and two students developing a cost-efficient infusion pump

Seth: MBA Chris: Mechanical Engineering


If you're for some reason following our journey, please feel free to comment here and learn more about our partner organizations at:


http://www.icddrb.org/
http://extreme.stanford.edu/
http://dschool.stanford.edu/