Special Topics at Edgerton Center: D-Lab Health: Medical Technologies for the Developing World
As taught in: Spring 2009
Instructors:
Jose Gomez-Marquez
Dr. Amit Srivastava
Ryan Scott Bardsley
Dr. Brian Tracey
MIT Course Number:
SP.718
Level:
Course Features
Course Description
D-Lab Health provides multi-disciplinary approach to global health technology design via guest lectures and a major project based on fieldwork. We will explore the current state of global health challenges and learn how design medical technologies that address those problems. Students may travel to Nicaragua during spring break and work with health professionals, using medical technology design kits to gain field experience for their device challenge. As a final class deliverable, you will create a product design solution to address the challenges observed in the field. The resulting designs are prototyped in the summer for continued evaluation and testing.