Infectious Disease Treatment Module (IDTM): Designing Industrial/Biomedical Components and Evaluation Framework

Climate change increases the suitability of environments to transmit water/air/food/vector-borne or zoonotic diseases. Despite public health/medical advances to reduce transmission, population growth in wildlife areas, unplanned urbanization, and globalization fuel emerging/re-emerging diseases and global spread. Preventing and controlling such diseases and challenging viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, requires a transdisciplinary approach with surveillance, early detection/response, vector control, education, and safe care. With the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Science for Health Network (Téchne), we've designed an Infectious Diseases Treatment Module (IDTM) to be rapidly/easily deployed, transported, expanded, self-contained/sufficient irrespective of pathogen/mode of transmission. The 1st prototype will be evaluated in Spring 2023. We need support to refine the design and further evaluate in the field (Guinea, Sierra Leone, DRC, Uganda).