Engineering World Health (EWH)

Providing and maintaining appropriate medical technology.

Other | Mozambique | Community Development |

http://ucsdewh.weebly.com/

Overview

Established by Bob Malkin and Mohammad Kiani professors at the University of Memphis in 2001 Engineering World Health is a non profit organization which inspires and mobilizes the biomedical engineering community to improve the quality of health care in vulnerable communities of the developing world. With this professional expertise they install donated and newly designed medical equipment carry out repairs and build local capacity to manage and maintain the equipment. They also harness the resources of collegiate engineering programs through a network of university based chapters and contract with Duke University to manage a summer program that sends student biomedical engineers to developing country hospitals where they repair broken equipment.