*resubmission* - A doctor led health education initiative

by 0x4748629b341ae21d5009ae425dfa79e9fd852282 (Imran#2282)

Should the following Tier 2: up to $3,000 USD in MANA, one-time payment grant in the Content Creator category be approved?

Abstract

We are looking to create the world's first health education platform on the metaverse. Led by British doctors from a variety of health specialties (including general practitioners, medical physicians, orthopedics/sports medicine, ophthalmology and psychiatry), we want to empower Decentraland's users with education and support on a variety of health issues - with a particular focus on mental health.

We envisage to run live weekly educational events on current, important and community-chosen medical topics. These will be led by doctors and consultants with particular expertise in that field. We aim for these events to be highly interactive and therefore highly valuable for the participants.

Grant size

3,000 USD

Beneficiary address

0x4748629B341aE21D5009Ae425DFa79e9Fd852282

Description

*** Please note this is a resubmission following our previous grant request and feedback from the community and developers. The overwhelming feedback was that this is a concept that will be highly valued and useful within the space, however, the focus should be to start smaller and grow based on the response from the community

We are therefore asking for a small grant initially to pilot the concept of a health education space, and run a small series of health education classes with a focus on some key health topics which will be of high value to the community.

What we hope to achieve long term;

Solving health inequalities;

• Access to expertise across several fields of medicine, psychiatry and surgery, who will provide health education to the users of Decentraland (no matter where in the world you are from)


Improving health;

• Focussing on key health issues, we can aim to improve and empower users, through education, to make healthy choices and understand more about disease and medicine


Mental health support;

• With access to psychiatrists and psychologists, we will have a particular focus on mental health education and support. We know this is a key issue globally, and in particular amidst the global pandemic.


Community driven;

• We want to ensure we are delivering and catering to the needs of the community. We will ensure that the direction of our educational events are driven by the community, and focussed on the areas that matter the most to you.


How we hope to achieve this;

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Weekly live educational events Each week there will be a doctor led event, where education on a particular health topic will be delivered to the community. These will be interactive, and include dedicated time for questions and answers.


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Dedicated sessions on mental health Delivered by psychiatrists/psychologists, we will have sessions dedicated purely for mental health support and chats.


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A list of trusted health professionals We will continue to build on our bank of trusted healthcare professionals, all of whom will be fully registered and indemnified by their national medical councils.

The future aims of the project; We are hoping to expand our project to run virtual medical clinics for the users of Decentraland. This will mean that you can access a one on one appointment with a fully trained and indemnified doctor/nurse for health advice/management. There are several legal and indemnity requirements that need to be addressed in order for this to become a reality, and we hope that these can be worked out sooner rather than later (watch this space!)... this will be a world's first in the Metaverse.

Specification

We are already in a unique position to access a wide number of leading experts in healthcare and medicine, to deliver excellent health education events.

With the funds raised from the grant, we will look to hire a programmer and developer to help with the creation and running of the events.

The funds will also be utilised to pay for the health professionals time during the educational events.

Personnel

Project Lead - Dr I Farooqi UK based General Practitioner, qualified in 2014. Clinical education lead, Clinical Supervisor, and Covid Vaccination Lead

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We will look to hire a programmer/developer with experience of the Decentraland user interface and platform. This will be needed to create the required platform within Decentraland to enable our educational events.

Roadmap and milestones

ROADMAP AND MILESTONES

Month 1

• Recruit an experienced programmer/developer to work on the Decentraland platform


Month 2-3

• Create and run a schedule for the educational events and mental health support events, booking in the necessary health professionals to deliver the events.


Month 4

• Reflect and gather community feedback on the above, and determine whether an additional larger grant is necessary for expanding the project

Vote on this proposal on the Decentraland DAO