TED Fellow Application instruction guiedline supplied by Mandela Washington Fellow Bright Chimezie Irem

TED FELLOW APPLICATION Guidelines and Instructions for Young Prospective TED Fellows

Original Contents Written and Supplied By Bright Chimezie Irem to serve as public education and help material source document, guiding anybody who qualifies to apply for TED fellowship program

 

1.  Tell us about your work, and the projects you are currently working on.

(Limit 750 characters)

As a Mandela Washington Fellow, my work is using Cloud-Computing/IT-Innovations to bridge the gap between knowledge, policy & action via Integrated App-Solution in saving the lives of vulnerable people in my country. With a Harvard University Certificate in Entrepreneurship/Healthcare in Emerging Economies, Bright Chimezie Irem is engaged in developing Need-Based Mobile-Health-Information-System, offering clinical/evidence-based point-of-care-App/referral solutions, reducing health inequalities/fatal clinical-errors & closing the Care-Consumer-Gap; enabling users have 24/7-access to verified medical personnel at over 70% cost lower than conventional method of consulting. This project is shrinking Mortality-Rates by addressing breakdowns in our Healthcare-Value-Chain.

2. What is your idea worth spreading? (Limit 150 characters)

Deploying Innovative IT/Enterprise-Need-Based Private-Sector Solution for Public Health Pandemics – Towards overcoming our Healthcare Inequalities.

3.   What are you best known for? What is your crowning achievement?

(Limit 750 characters)

Connecting People to Knowledge/Solution as Innovative Healthcare/IT-Professional; INSPIRING Social-Entrepreneur who doesn’t accept old limitations in crafting knowledge-based solution for practical problems, I’ve domesticated the IDEA of Human-Centered-Designing (HCD) Thinking in creating a local concept, “Adaptive-Innovation” in our healthcare sector as a model that creates unique solutions to fit a specific environment/culture; effectively dismantling the conventional method of One-Solution-Fit-All model. I’m making achievement mark in setting a breed of POSSIBILITY-THINKERS via Afripharm Medicals Health-IT/Business-Incubator-Center (hIT/BIC) for LEADERS to explore/share knowledge-based resources in tackling public health problems.

4. What other accomplishments would you like to share? Please give context!

e.g. (you're a wine expert, you own a bakery, etc.) (Limit 750 characters)

As a health professional/IT-Service provider, I’ve a TEAM solving public health issue based experience from years of volunteering to UNICEF/World Health Organization in Health Systems which gave rise to Afripharm Medicals, a company sampling Knowledge-Based-SOLUTIONS-for-Practical-PROBLEMS, using need-based approaches on how IT-Innovations can be used in tackling rural health problems; generating over 11-Million Naira in 2-years, created about 320-direct/indirect jobs, evolving SmartPharm®-and-HealthBeat® operating in 46 Health-Fulfillment-Centers (HFC) & 26 linked Pharmacies as a-cloud-based-ubiquitous App-Solutions for RELIABLE essential medications/Blood transfusion Supply-Chain-System, reducing avoidable deaths by 65% in 2-years.

5. List any awards, prize or other fellowships you have won, with the details below:

• The name of the award, prize, or fellowship
• The date it was received
• Any necessary context about the honor (e.g. "major math prize in Eastern Europe")

Note: Awards are not required to receive a TED fellowship (Limit 750 characters

1. Winner (Finalist 001 Nigeria) - The USA Department of States' 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows for Young African Leaders (MWF/YALI) (2017)

2. Winner (Finalist) - University of Notre Dame, South Bend Indiana USA Business Model and Pitch Award (2017)

3. Winner (Finalist) - The Nigerian Stock Exchange Innovative Business Model and Youth Trainer Award (2010)

4. Winner (Award of Excellence) - Umuaka Rural Women Award for Health and SME Rural-Based Informal Educator meeting SDGs 1, 8, & 10 (2015)

6. What type of education have you received? Please add details for any degrees, including:

• Educational institution
• Type of degree
• Subject
• Dates completed
• Any additional context. Note: Formal education is not required to receive a TED Fellowship. Many Fellows have not been to school or did not finish. (Limit 750 characters)

1. University of Notre Dame, USA, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Human Centered Design Thinking (HCD) - 2017.

2.  University of Notre Dame, USA, Certificate in Business Model/Strategy Simulation & Decision-Making- CAPSIM CAPSTONE Course - 2017.

3. Harvardx University, Boston USA - Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Healthcare In Emerging Economies - 2016.

4. University of Nigeria, MBBS - Medicine and Surgery - 2010.

5. Heidelberg University Germany - Certificate Course in Public Health: Climate Change and Health - 2016

6. Harvardx University, Boston USA - Certificate, Public Health and Safety: Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster - 2017/In-Progress.

7. What hobbies, causes or activities are you passionate about aside from your work?

(Limit 750 characters)

I’ve passion for social justice. I’ve volunteered as facilitator on race relations/diversity & intercultural affairs for safe work/training programs. At the grassroots, I’m leading the effort to create the first series of videos in support of community healthcare access involving PEOPLE, achieving harmony and social-friendliness. I’ve passion for peoples’ unrestricted access to knowledge/learning in order to fight social injustice. For every chance I have had, I project the dreams, hopes and aspirations of PEOPLE around me whose life experience has been different by no fault of theirs or their own ability-limitation. I’ve passion for building a better present together so that our desired future can yield.

8.   Share an example of something you have been a part of, created, led, or joined that you consider unique. Why do you think it is groundbreaking?

(Limit 1000 characters)

In April 2010, I looked at unacceptable Avoidable Death Rates on our health records. I joined immunization team to: 1.Understand the rural communities & 2. To inspire others into creative thinking beyond the age-long one-way routine visits. As a data analyst in health/IT, I quickly deduced why children skip immunization & pregnant mothers skip ante-natal care, both of which, are dangerous combination fueling the rise in death rates in the area. For 30-days, I brought an enterprise model, designing Social-Marketing-Strategy via “Community-Health-Talks” on Immunization, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Child-Nutrition/Weighing tips; creating network of contact points via rural chemists’ shops (operators of which have earlier been trained in this model). This led to increased immunization from 86/per-quarter to 392, reducing death rates by 43%, lowered barriers to healthcare; encouraged more check-ups. It’s unique as it served the basis for scaling in other communities, helping us overcome Polio.

9.   What questions should we have asked, but didn’t? Please write them down and answer them! (In other words, tell us something about yourself that we don’t know yet.) (Limit 1000 characters)

“I should have been asked, “What does Curiosity mean to you?”

Curiosity to me is the ability to ask and find answers to anything. We live in a time where access to information has impressively increased and the quest for curiosity can lead to discovery of one’s passion/the realization that there will be further probes that follow how solution(s) have been always created. A time that the spread of information/technology have reduced barriers to opportunity & prosperity, a time that is teaching us how we shared a common destiny; revealing a world more intertwined than at any time in human history. Here comes the time/chance to bring up new perceptions & solution away from the limitations of the past, the realization that solutions & answers are insights of reality, yet reality itself is a personal experience of ours individually at the moment. This brings fulfillment to me. To keep asking and to keep solving is an engaging and delightful continuous process.

10.                Can you share a memorable anecdote from your life that will give us a further sense of what makes you tick? (Limit 750 characters)

In April 2011 I’ve to inspire local health workers whose morale(s) have waned and showing on the poor outcomes/results from monitoring/evaluation. This covers a multi-community outreaches for 8 weeks. A week into the program I found the fundamental reasons/factors responsible for poor performances, results and unacceptable outcomes we were having in the community of 12,000 from over 25 tribes. I initiated & coordinate Leading-the-Leaders network among us.  This was an optional activity but it required great coordination between community heads, the clerics, the traditional-healthcare givers and the private sector operators etc. The result improved health outcomes, making me realize how much we can do better when PEOPLE are connected.