This Thursday at Change, Rob Nathan will be presenting on his work on Portable Ultrasound "According to the UN Africa and the Millennium Development Goals 2007 “Maternal health remains a regional and global scandal, with the odds that a sub-Saharan African woman will die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth during her life at 1 in 16 compared with 1 in 3,800 in the developed world.” We have begun a pilot project in Uganda to teach midwives to perform limited obstetrical ultrasound to identify potential birth complications. Women with those conditions will be encouraged to deliver in a facility equipped to perform cesarean section, rather than at a lower level health facility or in the home. Midwives will use off the shelf portable ultrasound equipment donated by GE. We have begun to work with Computing and Engineering and HCDE to develop equipment that is more appropriate for rural developing country environments: durable, cheap, simple, able to run off the electrical grid. We hope to incorporate ODK into this equipment." What: Rob Nathan on Portable Ultrasound When: Thursday, November 5 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403