The Global Health Technology Challenge
Identify a challenge in delivering health care in the developing world and design a technology to solve the problem.
Criteria for entering design competition:
- Teams of undergraduate students from any major.
- Design must address a global health need using a technical approach.
- Projects can emanate from coursework or other extracurricular activities.
- Teams should incorporate the design constraints encountered in providing healthcare in resource-limited settings.
- Entries will be judged on the quality of the problem definition, the effectiveness and potential impact of the design solution, and the likelihood that the design solution can be successful in improving healthcare delivery in a low-resource setting.
Registration requires both a Team Registration (Part One) and an Individual Registration for each team member (Part Two).
Please ensure that email addresses are entered for each team member.
Registrations must be completed by noon on January 27, 2012.
Based on this submission, teams that are selected to attend and compete in the design competition will be notified on or before February 24, 2012. Once notified, teams will have one week to confirm participation.
Teams that attend the competition will receive at least $300 to assist with travel.
Students selected to participate in the design competition will be asked to prepare a poster and oral presentation to deliver at the design competition. They will also be asked to bring their prototype.