We include below a collection of items to help visitors to our website—as well as our own growing network
of volunteers—better grasp and understand the context, breadth, influence, and eventual impact generated by
academic-practitioner networks of Collaborative Doers working in a variety of disciplines, sectors, regions, and
cultural settings.
We have listed below the instances (which we are aware of) where publicity occurred for CARTHA and its programs
through our partners and/or individuals who participated in our programs. In some cases, individuals
internally reported their work with CARTHA to institutional heads and/or helped feature the programs undertaken
with CARTHA to external constituencies. In other cases, there are also freely accessible videos posted on
our partners’ websites which include our founder’s entire presentation. In yet other instances, audio
versions of our programs can be purchased directly from the professional societies (where CARTHA organized
conference panels).
CARTHA founder participated in the WorldCanvass radio program hosted by Joan Kjaer on February 12, 2010.
You can hear the program by visiting http://www.prx.org/pieces/45180-worldcanvass-india. The program highlighted the
perspectives of University of Iowa faculty and students who have participated in the Winterim India programs originally
designed in 2006 by CARTHA Ambassador Raj Rajagopal and then-CARTHA Fellow Edwin Brands. Since 2006, CARTHA has
supported the Winterim India program in a number of ways by: co-sponsoring seminars and events; co-hosting program
partners, donors, and visiting guests; co-designing new curricular modules for incorporation within this program;
providing several students with travel stipends for their participation in the 3- week Winterim
India experiential courses; and introducing program participants to CARTHA's wider Collaborative Doer networks.
CARTHA founder, as a member of the Program Committee of the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, introduced
speaker at a program on February 3, 2010 featuring the late Dr.
Ignacio Ponseti's life of dedication to address Club Foot treatment through non-surgical method.
CARTHA Fellow Ajailiu (“Ajai”) Niumai says in her paper titled “Philanthropy and
Indian Diaspora in the 21st Century” presented at the AHRC/CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism,
Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) Conference 2009 at the University of Surrey, UK, see
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/
CRONEM/cronem-ahrc-conference-09/index.htm that her association with CARTHA since 2006 prompted her
research interests in these topics. Ajai also mentions CARTHA in a similar manner in her article titled
“Indian Diaspora Philanthropy: A Sociological Perspective” which was published in
Man in India (a journal in South Africa) in March 2009.
CARTHA Fellow Luke Juran continued to publicize CARTHA in numerous presentations at academic institutions as well as Rotary Clubs in Iowa and Tamil Nadu (India) during his Rotary Ambassador Scholarship Year.
CARTHA’s panel titled “Thirsting for Daily Sustenance: Public-Private Partnerships for Global Water-Access” at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was featured in multiple websites, program brochures, and news releases including by the University of Iowa. http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/february/021609water_sanitizer.html
2008
November 2008: CARTHA Council of Advisor Carlos Lucena alerted us that our “Health Technology Innovations Workshop” in Recife, Brazil in November 2008 sponsored by FIOCRUZ-Pernambuco was announced (in Portuguese) in the SBPC (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência) http://www.sbpcnet.org.br Jornal da Ciência - 1 Workshop de Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde (November 4, 2008). http://www.jornaldaciencia.org.br/Detalhe.jsp?id=59724 FIOCRUZ-Pernambuco maintains the 2008 Workshop information at http://inovatecsaude.cpqam.fiocruz.br/foreing.html. Carlos also included CARTHA (specifically the transformative impact of meeting CARTHA Founder at the 2008 annual meeting of the Technology Managers for Global Health) in his internal reports as well as the report of activities he undertook as a result of his Developing Countries Scholarship Award from the Association of University Technology Managers.
September 2008: CARTHA issues a press release in September 2008 announcing Chris Hillier’s appointment to CARTHA’s Board of Directors. [View Press Release PDF]
CARTHA’s conference panel “Humanity at the Nexus: Academic Partnerships and Entrepreneurship in Global Health” at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was featured in multiple program brochures and also included in the Little Devices That Could blog at http://littledevicesthatcould.blogspot.com/2008/02/little-devices-that-could-aaas.html
2007
Glasgow Caledonian University’s alumni magazine CaledonianPlus Issue No 2 Winter 2007 (Page 7) featured (CARTHA Ambassador) Chris Hillier and highlighted that he also spoke at the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club (a program organized in December 2006 by CARTHA).
CARTHA Fellow Edwin Brands (then-adjunct faculty member in the Geography Department & International Studies Program at the University of Iowa) had co-led with CARTHA Ambassador Raj Rajagopal (Geography Professor at the University of Iowa) a microfinancing and women’s entrepreneurship course in Tamil Nadu, India. The cutting-edge nature of such coursework was featured in: Making a Major Impact with Microfinance, by Sharon Shinn in BizEd Magazine, May/June 2007 (Pg. 26-31), see http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/Archives/MayJun07/26-31_bized.pdf. In addition to providing moral encouragement for Edwin’s efforts, Raj Rajagopal’s family made financial contributions to CARTHA that in turn enabled CARTHA to support a portion of the travel for three of the participating students from the University of Iowa (who would not have otherwise afforded the cost of travel to India). Edwin publicly thanked several organizations (including CARTHA) for supporting the first University of Iowa-Winterim Program to India in his piece published in The Daily Iowan in the Letters to the Editor section on Feb. 7, 2007.
2006
As a member and program organizer of the Cedar Rapids Section of IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers), http://ieee-cr-section.org/
Raman Aravamudhan, CEO of Ramaanchar Technologies, Inc. http://www.ramaanchar.com/ invited and publicized CARTHA Founder’s program presentation in their monthly newsletter and on their website.
CARTHA Founder was a panelist at a Theory-Practice Seminar on Advancing Vaccines: Innovations in Intellectual
Property Practice sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy at the Brooklyn
Law School, New York City in October 2006. More details including a video of
the seminar presentations are available at
http://www.brooklaw.edu/news/newsarchive/2006-10-26vaccines.php. Brooklyn Law School’s publication (Law School Briefs, Summer 2007, Page 11) included highlights of this seminar.
