Maria May
About Maria May
Maria May is the Project Coordinator for BRAC's new Social Innovations Lab in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She previously worked in BRAC's Health Program and co-authored Making Tuberculosis History: Community-based Solutions for Millions. Her other experience includes three years at Harvard's Global Health Delivery Project as a case writer and project manager for its research on sustaining delivery at scale, conducting social epidemiological research in New York City, and providing quality improvement support for programs serving people in the United States living with HIV. You can follow Maria on twitter @mariamayhem523.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Coordinator (Site, Program, Project)
- Researcher
Organization
- BRAC
- Global Health Delivery Project
Work Location(s)
- Bangladesh
Maria's Communities
Language(s)
- English
- Spanish
Recent Contributions
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Maria May started a discussion "Making the eHealth Connection: materials from the Rockefeller conference" in the Health IT community.
http://www.ehealth-connection.org/ In August, the Rockefeller Foundation hosted a 4-week conference that brought together donors, implementers and developers who are working to leverage technology to improve health delivery and outcomes in developing countries. All of the conference materials, including many case studies about current technological efforts from around the world (such as Rwanda, South Africa, Vietnam) and several of the speeches are available at the conference website. Several members of this community attended the conference and ...
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Maria May replied to "New Sudan Education Initiative" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Hi Kaitlyn, Sounds like a fascinating project. Have you looked at BRAC's microfinance/health model? They have been delivering large-scale, highly successful microfinance that integrates CHW in rural Bangladesh for over 25 years, and recently began to work in Southern Sudan as well. I'd encourage you to read up on their experience and model and perhaps try to reach out to the local BRAC members that are in your area. There are a few differences in ...
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Maria May replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.
Hi Peter, I've been doing some research on various EMR and am interested to hear how you plan to assess the various softwares. What domains do you plan to include? Hamish brought up the important point about what clinical problems you hope to solve, and it's also worth thinking about the various inputs that you have (who will use the system? How is internet connectivity? Who will provide technical support and how much? What access ...
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Maria May started a discussion "Pre-trauma care: training lay people on basic life support" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
Hi, On a recent trip to Pakistan, I had the opportunity to visit a medical school in Karachi. The staff there mentioned that in response to the recent earthquakes in Pakistan, the government was trying to increase the number of ICUs in the country and also offering basic life support training to interested community members to increase local capacity to respond to disasters. This reminded me of a training program that GPAS of Uganda piloted ...
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Maria May replied to "Difficulties measuring value of health IT" in the Health IT community.
John, Are you specifically talking about EMR and clinical outcomes in resource poor settings? I would be really interested to see these types of studies as well, or even hear anecdotally how programs have seen outcomes change as a result of an EMR. There is a well known case in the US of Cedar Sinai
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.