Dr. Chris Stout will provide tools and discuss models that psychologists and other disciplines have used in global humanitarian work. The use of psychological principles in policy development and sustainability along with interventionism will also be discussed. He will share real-world stories from innovative non-profits that will open new perspectives, ideas and approaches for attendees to learn from and adapt to their interests and work. Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives, a Top Ranked Healthcare Nonprofit. He is a former faculty member at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine and is currently an Advisory Board Member at the Center for Global Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Medicine. He served as a NGO Special Representative to the United Nations via Division 9 of the APA, was a Federal Advocacy Coordinator for APA for 12 years, was co-chair of CIRP, is past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, Fellow in three Divisions of APA and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He was a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow and invited faculty at their Annual Meeting in Davos. He published the award–winning three volume set, The New Humanitarians, in addition to over 35 other books, having been translated into 8 languages. He has been interviewed on CNBC, Oprah, and by the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and others. He’s received numerous humanitarian awards, including APA’s International Humanitarian Award and four honorary doctorates.

1. Dr Chris Stout
Center for Global Initiatives
&
College of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago
Technologies, Organizations
and Tools for Global
Psychologists in
Humanitarian Intervention

2. Let me start with my story.

4. Books, Books, Books….

8. While the academic side was important
(and great), I wanted to go into the
field.
On my first international medical
mission, I saw what the diseases of
poverty look like…

9. Halong Bay, Vietnam

10. “Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that
are the result of neglect in poverty
stricken communities.
As for prevalence…

11. ~30,000 children die each day due to
preventable diseases caused by poverty.

12. 500,000 children become blind each year
from malnutrition.

13. 1.8 million people die annually from
preventable diarrheal diseases.

14. While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention
strategies include:
Economic development
Ending military conflict
Developing education models – especially for females
Technology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g.,
markets for goods)
Fostering sustainable development

15. Sometimes one passion can
pivot to another

19. I was doing an increasing
amount of medical mission
work and being asked to grow
my involvement (“Accidental”
Humanitarian), and my mentor
said “you need to start a
501(c)3.” So I went to those I
knew to learn how they did it

21. William Rosenblatt, MD
REcovered
Medical
Equipment
Developing
Y (world)

22. Geek Corps
Ethan Zuckerman

23. Sustainable Sciences Institute

24. .
Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole
Shobha Arole, MD

25. Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD

26. Scojo Foundation.

27. Marie Charles, MD

28. So, I learned there is no fixed set of rules,
no set path, that you have to follow.

30. I want to tell you about my experience
with starting a non-profit, the big
problem we experienced, and the pivot
we made…

31. So our pivot was to focus on one key
project, and share what we had learned
with others to help them accelerate and
reduce friction in doing humanitarian
work.
In other words, to open-source
humanitarian intervention!

32. The basic idea is that doing good work and
helping others shouldn’t be so hard…

33. We found that those folks generally
broke into two categories:
• Those wanting to start their own non-profit/NGO,
so we coach and teach how-to, and
• Those just wanting to do the work or a project, so
we help and act as a fiscal intermediary.

34. Regardless of which camp you are
in, the following tools may be of
interest, and they all are freely
available…

37. We also produced two books so far,
with royalties going to support the
Center as well as support our mission.

38. We developed a podcast to highlight
interesting people that all have a
humanitarian aspect to their lives or
work.

39. Outcomes of our key project partner
• We started a kindergarten in Tanzania.
• 40 kindergarten children were able to join primary school.
• It’s planned that 40 more children will be able to be registered once
they are 6 years old.
• 21 new students were able to be registered into the kindergarten.
• 22 orphan students supported by CGI passed their final national
exams in primary school and they have been selected to join public
secondary schools.
• 11 girls passed their final secondary school exams.
• 10 top scorers were selected by the Ministry of Education to join in the
special national government school program.

40. “73 Cents a Life”
• Huruma Designated Hospital and Kibosho Hospital deals with TB,
pneumonia, immunosuppression, diabetes, accidents/injuries,
hypertension, and one season, a particularly bad malaria epidemic.
• We were able to procure the proper medications needed, and at
follow-up, we learned that our partners had been able to treat and
thus help prevent over 4,100 people from dying of malaria.
• Twenty-eight percent of those infected were children under the age of
five — an even more vulnerable group.
• When calculating the cost, it averaged out to...
• 73 cents a life.

41. In terms third party cred:

42. What’s next?
Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention

43. THANKS
KEEP IN TOUCH
GO DO
For Having Me
DrChrisStout.com
CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org
Great Things…!