Cuba’s Next-Level Do-It-Yourself Movement
Cuba has had a sophisticated do-it-yourself movement developed by a well-educated populace cut off from access to parts and...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Health
Technology is essential to good health worldwide. Product designers are revealing its potential with devices such as paper-based rapid disease diagnostics, accurate male circumcision tools that can reduce the rate of HIV infection, and suites of telemedicine tools that put doctors on screens right in a patient’s home. Medical devices are the link between good design and good health.
Interest: Health
Healthcare for the Long Haul
Editor’s note: Demand: ASME Global Development Review shuttered after six years of publishing in-depth coverage of the most interesting manifestations of design, engineering and social ventures in global development....
Saathi Hygiene Pads Bets on Carbon and Plastic Credits with ...
Saathi, the India-based manufacturer of environmentally friendly sanitary pads, would like to broaden the scope of projects that generate carbon and plastic credits. These credits are usually awarded for...
What to Know About the WHO-Recommended Malaria Vaccine
How well does the vaccine work, what does it mean for bed nets and other malaria-prevention measures, and what is the status of other vaccines in development? The World...
What Would You Do with Up to 8,600 Donated Medical Roll Stan...
An unusual opportunity is available to global development engineers and anyone working toward a good cause. The Philips Foundation is donating up to 8,600 medical roll stands to people and organizations...
E4C Partners with WHO to Advance Global Health Technology
In May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the World Health Organization announced an open call for submissions to a new compendium of medical technology for low-resource settings....
A Kenyan Startups Ventilator May Bridge Local Demand
While growing up in Kenya, Wambui Nyabero, the innovator behind an advanced medical ventilator design called AfriVent, had few motivators to cheer her on to become an engineer. The...
How to Make a Low-Cost Air Purifier to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission Indoors
A box fan, air filters and the box in which they come are the raw materials for a simple...
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Frugal Engineering Goes Beyond Cost
Engineers are certainly not new to developing low-cost equipment for use in places where electricity is as rare as...
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Ten Innovations in Vaccine Delivery Technology in Low-Resource Settings
Some of the world’s impoverished countries and overlooked, underserved communities are losing the race to vaccinate against the novel...
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How We Are Engineering a Sustainable Business in Bamboo Toothbrushes
The bamboo fronds above a Vietnamese farming community sparked the idea for a business and a brand of oral...
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Contact Tracing Apps Can Work, If They Surmount Their Trust Problem
An emerging complementary measure to fight the coronavirus and flatten the new infection curve is the implementation of contact...
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Where the Cold Chain Doesn’t Go
The cold supply chain can’t reach everywhere. That’s a big problem for equitable COVID-19 vaccination. To mitigate health inequities...
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Are 3D-Printed Prostheses the Solution for Limb Loss in Low-Income Countries?
Maybe, but gaps remain. 3D printing is disrupting industries around the world largely because of the availability of low-cost...
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Help Define Best Practices in Biomedical Engineering: Answer This Questionnaire
Members and readers of Engineering for Change are invited to take part in defining the best practices in biomedical...
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Research Brief: An Air Quality Feedback System May Promote Clean Cooking
An electronic device might be able to change people’s behavior and prompt household cooks to use clean cookstoves rather...
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UV Light Can Make the Indoors Safer During the Pandemic – If It’s Used Correctly
Editor’s note: The author, Dr. Karl Linden, conducts research into water and sanitation technologies that meet basic needs in...
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