Origins of a Startup: The Mechanical Engineer Nneile Nkholis...
The following is an excerpt from the book Founding Women: African Women Who Are Defying the Odds to Build...
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
Empowering First Responders in Gaza: Students in Baltimore a...
Gaza may be underprepared for armed conflict, natural disasters or other emergencies that inflict mass casualties, in part because of outdated communication technology. The region’s primary mode of communication...
An obstetric device in development treats postpartum hemorrh...
I had the privilege of pitching the obstetric device I’m developing with a team at the University of Michigan at Unite for Sight’s Global Health and Innovation Conference. The...
A Better Portable Air Quality Monitor
Camera sensors and machine learning may make portable air quality monitoring more cost effective and accurate. Ever wondered how much of the brown haze over a city’s skyline is...
Shh.. Dont Tell Kids but Playing with Soap Actually Prevents...
Don’t tell the kids, but the colored mess they’re making with their hands is probably good for them. Soapen has launched a colored soap that smears all over young...
Assistive Devices in Low-Income Countries: Adaptability and ...
The elderly and people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries remain underserved with poor access to assistive technology. The lack of access to wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs and other...
ISO Standards for Clean Cookstoves Update
Diversity in clean cookstove design has climbed sharply as startups, mom and pops, multinationals and even students try to solve a humanitarian conundrum. They are also taking a shot...
What to Do When FDA Approval Doesn’t Mean a Medical Device Is Safe
Does United States FDA regulatory approval mean a medical device is safe and effective in low-resource settings? The short...
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Tackling Indoor Air Pollution in Northern Cambodia with Improved Cookstove Technology
Traditional cooking practices in the developing world contribute to poor health, environmental degradation, and poverty. Today, about three billion...
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Manual wheelchair design and production in low-resource settings
Complex challenges await designers developing wheelchairs for low-resource settings, but the result could be life-changing for the people who...
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Sanitary pads for underserved populations – two common approaches
Without access to affordable napkins, girls and women in developing countries might miss up to 50 days of school...
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Why companies should not sell or give technology intended for individual and household use to NGOs
When I worked at CARE, I used to get these calls about once a month. “Hi, I’m Bob! I...
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Volunteer cartographers create open source maps to guide malarial mosquito eradication
Spraying insecticide indoors remains one of the most effective weapons against malarial mosquitoes, the World Health Organization says, but...
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From Baby Monitors to Fishing Fleets: Ten Upgrades with Remote Sensors
The cost of electronic sensors and mobile technology has dropped low enough to network hardware and infrastructure even in...
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How to Make Hard Decisions in Sustainable Development
This methodology can guide ethical decision-making in the practice of sustainable global development. Syringe design presents a surprisingly complicated...
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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017
Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even...
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The case for open-source design in low-cost medical patient transport
People who need medical care in patient transportation in rural developing countries can be stranded by long distances to...
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