Category: Share Fair 2014 Project Directory

Jasmine Buttholph

NYU

Technology in a gender-specific combination HIV prevention pilot study in Kenya

HIV infection disproportionately affects youth (15-24 years old) in sub-Saharan Africa.  High coverage of HIV testing and counseling (HTC) is essential for early linkage to care for HIV positive youth. The MP3 Youth study aims to pilot a combination package of gender-specific interventions in western Kenya in a mobile health delivery format, mobile electronic health records, and mobile phone surveys to follow-up participants after the event.

The mobile health events are composed of 6 tents where gender specific interventions are offered on site.  The package includes: for all youth, HIV testing as an entry point with linkage to care/antiretroviral therapy (ART) and increased condom use among newly HIV-diagnosed persons; for HIV negative, uncircumcised males, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC); for 20-24 year old HIV negative at risk females, PrEP; and for 15-19 year old HIV negative girls attending school, a conditional cash transfer (CCT).

Participants are identified by a biometric device connected to a tablet . The services one can access depend on clinical/behavioral eligibility collected in the tents. The tablets are connected via Bluetooth and sync every 5 minutes. Clients registered in tent 1 can be identified and their health records accessed in other tents. Participants complete an ODK survey that is pushed to the NYU server at the end of each day. Biometrics ensures that individuals access each service and receive incentives only once.  RAs complete ODK checklists to ensure all services were offered. Youth who are HIV positive are enrolled in a cohort to evaluate the barriers and facilitators to accessing care and adhering to treatment. A USSD survey is pushed to the participants every 3 months. The platform protects participant confidentiality by not storing data on the device. No questions or responses are stored on the device. Upon survey completion, a mobile money transfer is sent via mPESA.

Combination HIV prevention can significantly reduce HIV risk among youth. However, to be effective in the overall population, interventions need to be implemented at high coverage levels.

Kevin Birk

NYU Stern School of Business

Mediasite Lecture Capture Implementation

This project covers the implementation of the NYU Stern School of Businesses transition from ECHO360 lecture capture system to the Mediasite Lecture Capture system in all of our classrooms and special event spaces, including hardware installation and configuration, application configuration, changes to our offered services, and migration of existing content from the ECHO360 content servers to Mediasite hosted environment.

Co-Presenters: Jerry Chong, Benjamin Stifler (both tentative)

Mike Baron

Our central housing application and assignment process expanded to include all 13 study away sites, our two portal campuses, and of course a few buildings in Brooklyn. While the business rules are now significantly more complex surrounding who can apply where, what application questions are appropriate for each site, and even what currency to charge in and how much, we made a huge effort to streamline and simplify the process for students. We have four MS SQL databases interfacing with Admissions, BioDemo, and Enrollment data as well as 3rd party housing software to create a single entry point for students to apply for housing wherever they may be going immediately after acceptance into the university. We leveraged Microsoft technologies and more importantly the brains of student employees to deliver a one of a kind applications and assignments solution.

 

Co-Presenters: Max Dumas (mfd271@nyu.edu)

Sebastien Auguste

NYU-Poly

Live Virtual Learning

This presentation will speak about one section of our online program called Live Virtual Learning. We live stream classes that are happening on campus to students who are taking the course all around the world. They are able to communicate with the students and faculty on-campus live. How it works and the way the system is set up.