India: PSI: Gates Foundation RFP: Monday

E-Mail below from Managing Director Dana Ward. New work to be done.

Hi Dan,

We could use your help on another project, if you have time and interest.
As you may have heard, we're responding to a couple of important tender
offers by the Gates Foundation. One is to improve treatment of TB,
pneumonia, diarrhea, and visceral leishmaniasis in the state of Bihar,
through private sector providers. The Gates Foundation (BMGF) is super
oriented to science and technology. One of the mandates in this tender is
the use of some type of telemedicine.

At PSI/India we've never used telemedicine but we need to incorporate it
into our proposal. I did a database search, through Johns Hopkins, and came
out with a few hits, below. I've downloaded some of the articles from the
Internet.

Would you be able to do some desk research on potential applications of
telemedicine for the Bihar project? The purpose would be to provide some
background info on the latest and greatest in India and see if there's
anything that is super simple and low cost, preferably requiring only a cell
phone, that we could adapt to the Bihar project?

Attached are the articles and the tender from BMGF. Also a link to our big
competitor in this tender, called World Health Partners
(http://www.worldhealthpartners.org/), which is well-advanced in
telemedicine.

This isn't in your scope of work, so feel free to stay focused on GIS if you
need the time for that.

Best
Dana