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In this issue:
Honduras BMET Session Two Completed
2011 EWH Design Competition results announced
2011 Summer Institute ends; get ready for 2012! |
Honduras BMET Session Two Completed
The second session of BMET Continuing Education program in Honduras was completed successfully, running for four weeks from May 30 to June 24 with 20 participants representing 11 public hospitals and clinics throughout the country. The training was conducted in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Formacion Profesional (INFOP), the local educational partner, and with support from the GE Foundation. INFOP provided valuable administrative support to the program, including instructors, transportation, translation, and facilities. INFOP is preparing to become the sustained home of the BMET training program in Honduras, and has identified three instructors who will teach new Honduran students after the direct involvement of the EWH program comes to an end in several years.
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2011 EWH Design Competition results announced
The EWH Design Competition seeks to reward the best teams of students who work on engineering projects directed at the needs of developing country health care. For the second year in a row, our judges picked the top three submissions based on their potential impact on global health as well as their feasibility, both technical and economic.
The winning team is the BP Team from the University of Oxford in the UK. Their submitted design is an automatic, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring system powered by a cell phone. This project has a very high potential in resource-poor settings where mobile phones are widely available whereas trained healthcare workers are not. The team will be using their $5,000 cash prize to continue work on their project.
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2011 Summer Institute ends; get ready for 2012!
 Angela and Soren after repairing an autoclave As of August 21, 2011, EWH’s 10th year of hosting the Summer Institute came to a close. Once again, the staff at both Engineering World Health and the Developing World Healthcare Technology Lab at Duke University are celebrating a productive and impactful program. This year, 48 students from 4 countries and 18 universities participated in Summer Institute programs in Nicaragua, Honduras and Tanzania. During the two month program, students learned Spanish or Swahili, developed and applied technical skills and assisted EWH’s partner hospitals with the repair and maintenance of numerous pieces of broken medical equipment. Read the full story here.
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Billy Teninty, EWH BMET Training Director, retires
Billy joined the EWH staff in November 2009 to lead EWH in our BMET training program in Rwanda. In addition to his tireless efforts to ensure the success of the training program in Rwanda, Billy played a critical role in securing grant funding for BMET programs in Cambodia, Ghana and Honduras.
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New additions to the team!
Anna Worm (left) joined EWH in August 2011. She is responsible for managing the BMET program in Rwanda and will support the Summer Institute in Tanzania.
Rob Campbell (right) serves as the Manager for our BMET Programs and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Medical Equipment and Optical School (USAMEOS).
Please join us in welcoming them to the EWH team! |
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