EWH Blog

This month EWH is bidding a fond farewell to President & CEO, Dr. Tojan Rahhal. We hope you will join us in thanking Tojan for her nearly four years of dedicated work in advancement of our mission and wishing her well in the next steps of her journey. Serving as Interim President is Megan Lavery, who has recently rejoined the EWH team as Director of Operations.…

During the 2023 Summer Institutes, 51 students and young professionals from around the world served as volunteer biomedical equipment technicians in Guatemala, Uganda, and Nepal with Engineering World Health.…

The EWH Design Competition, which is open to EWH Chapter members, invites university students to submit innovative designs for medical technology that can make a difference in low-resource settings. Our 13th annual competition received thirteen exciting proposals from nine universities in five different countries.…

In addition to in-person Institutes in Guatemala, Uganda, and Nepal, this Summer the EWH team facilitated a virtual engineering exchange program between students at UC Berkeley and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.…

Governor Roy Cooper first proclaimed April as North Carolina STEM Education Month in 2021 to show support for the students, leaders and organizations in STEM fields across the state.…