Energy For Health: Cell phone expansion and disease prevention Harvey Rubin University of Pennsylvania Alice Conant http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/25/solar-cellphone-towers-in-india-to-save-5-million-tons-of-co2-and-1-4-billion/
Disease in Developing Countries: Vaccines 2.4 million children die from vaccine preventable diseases Vaccine-preventable deaths of children under age five:
Disease in Developing Countries: Cold Chain "The Cold Chain." WHO.INT. World Health Organization, 26 Nov. 2002. Web. <https://apps.who.int/vaccines-access/vacman/coldchain/the_cold_chain_.htm>.
Cold Chain Cold Chain Compliance Drop-Off Study of Cold-Chain in Rural India: For every 1 kilometer increase in distance between primary health center and sub-health centers, cold chain compliance decreases by 0.16 units Evaluation of the Cold-Chain for Oral Polio Vaccine in a Rural District of India. Yogindra Samant, Hemant Lanjewar, David Parker, Lester Block, Gajendra S. Tomar, Ben Stein. Public Health Reports / January February 2007 / Volume 122, 112-121
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY Landlines are Technology of the Past Cell Phones are the fastest spreading technology in history Currently, approximately 75% of the world s rural inhabitants are covered by a mobile cellular signal Expecting by 2015 to have 100% global coverage World 2009, GSM Coverage Maps. http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml, International Telecommunication Union (2010). World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS targets. Geneva: ITU.
Developing Countries Dominate Mobile customers in developing countries account for 2/3 of the universal mobile phones in use
Cell Phone Towers http://www.visiognomy.com/diagrams/archives/2005/02/16/cell-phone-towers/
Icelined Refrigerators, Compression Type (All require a min. of 8 hrs of electricity it per 24 hrs at 43 C to maintain iti required temperature t range) Model Company Vaccine Holdover Power Price ($) Storage consumptio Capacity (L) n (kwh/24 TCW 1152/CF Time (Hrs) @ 32 C, 43 C Hrs) @ 32 C, 43 C Electrolux 169 42, 42.9, 1.6 1452.73 MK 144 Vestfrost 45 45, 15.47, 1.07 386.36 TCW 1990 Electrolux 37.5 38, 17.2 1.41, 1.92 1070 VC 139 F LEC 107.5 21, 17 1.41, 1.92 1556.25 Refrigeration MK 074 Vestfrost 20 --, 32.5 --, 1.62 507.27 MK 204 Vestfrost 63 46, 10.6, 1.41 450 MK 304 Vestfrost 108 49, 15.8, 1.67 531.82 Product Information Sheets, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF Catalog, 2000
The Next Step Teams: Design Manufacture/Install/Maintain Health/Epidemiology/Demography Business/Government Relations Administration/Legal/Funding Communications
Design Electrical and Systems Engineers Design the interface that t channels the energy from the cell phone towers to refrigeration units Questions: Design a new, targeted refrigeration unit? Consider a battery energy storage option Means of monitoring the refrigeration units both vaccine temp and overall security
Manufacture/Install/Maintain / Implementation ti Pilot project requires travelling to selected developing countries Maintenance and Use Questions: How will the sites be installed and maintained? Who will use and operate the sites and distribute the vaccines? The health committee will address this too.
Health/Epidemiology/Demography /p g py Demographics, Epidemiology and Healthcare Team Involves mapping cell tower locations with relation to population and healthcare facilities Questions: Where should we begin implementing? How will the local health workers be involved?
Business/Government Relations Cooperate with mobile companies Cooperate with local government Cooperate with NGOs--clean water movement, WHO, UNICEF Questions: This is a big one we need as much input here as possible
Administration/Legal/Funding / g Organize a Non-Profit for Energy for Health Organize Project Finances Questions: Located at University of Pennsylvania for now, including holding meetings at Wharton San Francisco Members of team?
Communications Create a public awareness and presence Questions: How to go about publicizing for Energy for Health?
Contact Information Harvey Rubin rubinh@gmail.com Kent Smetters smetters@wharton.upenn.edu e s@w.edu Alice Conant alice_conant@hmc.edu