Dear Stakeholders,
We are excited to report that a donor is interested in creating a large endowment at GreenForest and is interested in collaborating with the CIPCT NMETH 526 students! They would like to see short project pitches < 10 min for development of an open-source PCT that supports positive health outcomes, hopefully with a primary or secondary prevention focus.
Key priorities:
- A focus on public health impact, healthcare inequities, and population-level intervention efficacy.
- Strong alignment with human-centered design methodologies (which differ substantively from user-centered paradigms) and a commitment.
- Initial areas of interest include:
- PCTs that address colon cancer (the donor saw a news report recently about how it is a top cause of cancer deaths for those under 50),
- Tools that can help with the healthcare needs (consider anything and everything in Maslow’s hierarchy) for those that are undocumented in the USA (and/or displaced persons) abroad.
- Medication adherence – particularly for those with low digital literacy and low health literacy.
More ideas may be forthcoming, but interest areas will be around where there are issues of equity and where a PCT can have a real impact. Please consider this a preliminary communication, with additional context and tactical next steps to be disseminated by mid-April, 2025.
Best Regards,
IP Nightly, PhD, MD, DO, RN, APRN, BA, BS, BSN, AA, AAS, ADN, GED, FAAN, FAAM
Vice President, Digital Services Strategy & Transformation
GreenForest Integrated Innovation Division