One of the greatest challenges we face in global health and medicine are large gaps between emergent, general, primary and surgical care. There is a vast need for education, capacity building, learning opportunities as well as hands on training for surgical procedures to improve the lives of millions of lives across the globe. COWF’s initiative utilizes technology centered programs where through COWF’s Global Health Coalition partners we’re building on existing resources and creating new programming through the use of remotely driven and digital technologies that enable access to learning opportunities and training with teaching institutions and mentors.

Implementation has already begun as of August 2020, where partnerships were identified with academic, institutional, non-profit, private and public entities, including partners in the technology and digital space to come together to collectively roll out programs remotely in light of the COVID19 pandemic. \r\nIn a traditional setting COWF would mobilize teams for the purpose of surgical and medical education outreach. And then the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 and most of our mission services were halted. We took a step back to look at ow we can improve on our services as well as how to continue to education and train without physically mobilizing and transporting teams. COWF partnered with organization already using remote technology methods to incorporate into our programming and within our global network. Steps have been taken to deploy some of the technology being used for education and training purposes. Through our technology centered partners, we are working on curating educational content for the use of remote and live learning opportunities in regions lacking resources and means.\r\nOur initiative will be carried out in several phases, which began as mentioned, V.R. technology platforms, A.I. and data collection software, A.R. SMART GLASSES, XR Platforms and online social and communication applications. Our capacity building programming will go through pilot and study phases and eventually rolling out to encompass: 50 community health workers, 50 community health workers, 15 disaster relief responders, 15 academic institutional program leaders and, 500 mentor/mentee surgical teams. \r\nAll acting implementors within our programming are for the sole purposed of scaling learning, training and mentorship in healthcare practices for educational as well as humanitarian purposes. \r\n\r\nThe methods in which capacity building through advanced remote learning, mentorship and training methods in global and community health as well as medical and surgical care can play a role in achieving health-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets, in particular: (i) ending preventable deaths in newborn babies and children younger than 5 years; (ii) reducing the gap in gender equality with ensuring inclusive participation (iii) reducing death and disability due congenital anomalies, injury, noncommunicable diseases , among others; (iv) ensuring universal health coverage; and (v) increasing the health and education workforce. \r\n\r\nWe aim to accelerate these goals through COWF’s Global Health Coalition.

A board committee comprised of leadership from participating COWF’s Global Health Coalition has been created. The COWF Global Health Coalition board committee and advisory will oversee the goals, coordination, planning and daily functions of the program offerings, expansion, including oversight within their own organizations and or institution. Additionally, each participating partner will be responsible for submitting updates on indicators, measuring impact made as well as agreed upon meetings for updates and actions taken towards achieving the goals and objectives of our collective initiative.

Children of War Foundation, University of Southern California, Rochester Mayo Clinic, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Department of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Emory University Plastic Surgery, Bernard Mevs Hospital Haiti, Ohana One, Vuzix Corporation, University of Miami, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Abdali Hospital Jordan, Stanford Chariot Program, Mighty Immersion