# Technology-Train-Dis Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $216,803

## Abstract

Summary Technology Training and Dissemination Core (Technology Train Dis)
The C-THAN Technology Training and Dissemination Core (Technology Train Dis) leverages
over 12 years of teaching and expertise in conducting needs assessments for POC
technologies from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management (Kellogg). Since
2006, our proposed Technology Train Dis team has trained over 300 MBA students conducted
POC technology needs assessment in the following 18 countries: Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia,
China, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We have conducted these needs
assessments for a variety of product developers, including Northwestern University, Abbott
Diagnostics, Alere, Becton Dickinson, Quidel Corporation, Minute Molecular, FIND, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Northwestern Global Health Foundation. From these needs
gathering experiences, we know that assessing need and a POC technologies ability to meet a
need is not a one-time process. Rather, needs assessment is a constant and iterative process.
The C-THAN Technology Train Dis will train and/or conduct needs assessments for POC
technology product developers throughout the product development lifecycle. Investigators will
train and conduct similar needs assessments for POC technology developers selected by C-
THAN. The Technology Train Dis specific aims are: 1. facilitate and enhance interdisciplinary
training on the development, evaluation, implementation, and commercialization of POC
technologies related to HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), 2. conduct
needs assessments of POC technologies for HIV/AIDS infected patients in LMICs, and 3.
Disseminate the results of clinical needs and user assessment and impact analysis to relevant
stakeholders. The primary goal of the Technology Train Dis is to provide infrastructure and
services dedicated to needs assessment of POC technologies. Our needs assessment
approach is unique in that we ensure POC technology developers have considered a variety of
stakeholders including, end users, patients, policy makers, funders, manufacturing partners, and
distributors. This multi-stakeholder approach ensures technology prototypes supported under C-
THAN will have a high rate of success for market adoption and sustainability.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174929
- **Project number:** 5U54EB027049-04
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Kara Palamountain
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $216,803
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-11 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174929

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174929, Technology-Train-Dis Core (5U54EB027049-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174929. Licensed CC0.

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