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Beyond Traditional Borders:Students Solving
Global Health Challenges
Maria Oden, Rebecca Richards-Kortum
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Beyond Traditional BordersUndergraduate program at Rice
• Students learn the engineering design process and apply it to designing solutions to real-world global health challenges provided by our partners.
• Students have the opportunity to apply for internships that allow them to travel to our partners’ sites to implement the designs.
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Impact
• These technologies have been used in 21 countries
• Over 45,000 people have been directly and positively impacted through the use of these technologies
28 designs have been evaluated or used in the field
Challenge: Moving from design to dissemination
HaitiMexico
NicaraguaEcuador
Guatemala Honduras
LesothoSwaziland
Botswana
Rwanda
MozambiqueMalawi
Tanzania
Sierra Leone
United States
Dominican Republic
Myanmar
Niger
Kenya
Peru
India
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Stalled?
• Challenges– Bandwidth– Identifying the right partner and/or business
model– What is the real market? – Education focus– Funding- try, try again
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Steps to Success
• Design, Prototype, Evaluate, Redesign• Evaluation research
– Initially in US if possible– Clinical trials– Publish– Obtain funding
• Identify local champion • Partner, partner, partner• Dual Market
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