Amy Lehman, founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Clinic, was interviewed by Lisa Smith of WDI’s Healthcare Research initiative.
Lehman, who was a WDI Global Impact Speaker in January, talked about her background, how she came up with the idea of building a floating clinic, the needs of those who live on the lake’s shoreline, and the services the clinic will provide. Watch the interview >>
Surprise her with a beautiful bracelet from Altruette and support the LTFHC’s work in Africa!
We are thrilled to report that later this week we’ll be heading to Kigoma, Tanzania to have our first meeting with our US-based and Tanzanian ship-building teams, which include Alion Science and Technology, MMIC, and Songoro Marine. A major step forward for the LTFHC!
As we go down the home stretch with our naval architecture and engineering designs and full economic analysis, please contact us if you’d like to see these plans in greater detail and we will be happy to provide them!
Jill Iscol, Anderson Nkwayu, and Amy Lehman at the “Hearts on Fire” book-signing at Books and Books in Coral Gables, FL.
And the great press continues for Jill’s book, which features Amy Lehman and several other visionaries making a difference. Read what the Huffington Post had to say >>
Floating But Not Adrift: Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic Model
By Lisa Smith
For many, Lake Tanganyika is the most recognizable body of water on Earth – holding 20 percent of the planet’s fresh water. But for Dr. Amy Lehman, founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic, the lake represents much more. With such a large portion of the world’s fresh water, Lake Tanganyika will most certainly increase in significance, as concerns for water security grow. Additionally, the lake serves as an important ecosystem of biodiversity, home to a large variety of unique plant and animal species. Bordering Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia, the lake also defies norms and borders as it unites a community of people potentially more alike in their past and present customs than with others on the opposite end of their country. And, Dr. Lehman builds on this populations’ unity through the floating clinic’s outreach. Click here to read the full article and watch the video of Amy’s interview »
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Medicine at the Margins By Anna Louie Sussman
NEW YORK CITY— As doctors absorbed in caring for other people’s hearts, Amy Lehman, who was training in cardio-thoracic surgery in Chicago, and Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s first female cardiologist, had to slow down and tune into their own to realize what they really wanted to do: help the most marginalized people access care.
Dr. Lehman was drawn to the isolated coastal communities along Lake Tanganyika, where 3 million people live with almost no health care infrastructure. Dr. Nishtar sought to leverage telecommunications technology to put vital treatments within reach of Pakistan’s poorest citizens, who often fall into a cycle of further debt and poverty when faced with unexpected health care bills. Read the entire article >>
The LTFHC will join 650 leaders in business, philanthropy, science, technology and the arts for this year’s Summit Series conference in Lake Tahoe. If you’re going to be there, come to the panel we’ll be on: “Leaders at the Frontier of Healthcare Innovation”.
2011 has been an extremely busy year for the LTFHC, and we are thrilled for many more exciting developments in the new year — including complete concept designs of the hospital ship in early 2012! Our progress would not be possible without the support of our donors. Please consider a year-end donation to enable the LTFHC to continue to provide health care services and education of health care workers in the Lake Tanganyika basin, as well as be an agent of hope for the millions of people who live there.
As a practitioner in an ultra-rural location, I have long followed developments in mHealth and telemedicine and been excited by the possibilities. Unfortunately, I work in a place that is still largely without cell phone access, much less broad-band, so issues regarding connectivity, 3G availability, bandwidth are of paramount importance to me in discussing how mHealth can change the health care landscape. Read the entire article>>
