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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
EpiSurveyor maker Selanikio wins Lemelson-MIT sustainability award
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The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability has been awarded to Joel Selanikio, developer of the EpiSurveyor, an open-source mobile health software product used particularly in developing countries.
The award is intended to honor those whose inventions have contributed significantly to improving human development, mitigating human environmental impact and forming adaptations to environmental changes that can’t be adjusted, according to the Lemelson-MIT website.
Selanikio was chosen for the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability due to his contributions to public health and international development, MIT officials said in a press release. The co-founder of Washington D.C.-based DataDyne and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital, Selanikio has a background that spans computer science, medicine and public health.
DataDyne is a non-profit organization focused on public health and development information and communication. The EpiSurveyor platform can be downloaded for free onto mobile devices in order to give health workers access to health surveys, treatment evaluations and disease monitoring.
The creator of the award, Jerome Lemelson, and his wife, Dorothy, founded the Lemelson-MIT program in 1994. It is funded by the philanthropic Lemelson Foundation.
Last June, MIT awarded the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize to Joseph DeSimone for his research developments in drug delivery, medical devices and green manufacturing.
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