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Collective Solutions

Design for the Other 90% opens on February 17, 2009 at one of the world’s leading public health agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Committed to helping all global citizens live safer, healthier, and longer lives the CDC has been on the cutting edge of developing innovative and practical solutions to the world’s health challenges. Working with the Carter Center to eradicate guinea worm disease CDC developed a small portable water filter, similar to the LifeStraw water purification tool on display in the exhibition. In the early 1990s, CDC scientists developed some of the first safe water vessel systems to prevent the spread of diseases such as cholera and diarrhea. You can view these and other innovative designs that help to improve the lives around the world at the Centers for Disease Control’s Global Health Odyssey Museum now through May 29, 2009.

About the Author: Cynthia E. Smith is Curator of Socially Responsible Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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  1. I’m excited about this exhibition – will it ever return to NY? Have promoted it on http://www.changedbydesign.com/
    for now.

    Angela | Feb 19, 04:17 PM

  2. I wanted to share about my innovation of using mobile phones and mobile phone games as an effective tool to create awareness among communities in Asia and Africa in Low-Resource Settings on HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases like Tuberculosis, Malaria and Cholera. The website is: http://www.freedomhivaids.in

    Best regards
    Hilmi Quraishi, Ashoka Fellow (INDIA)

    Hilmi Quraishi | Jun 3, 12:15 AM

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