Our Students

Our students and faculty in the training program are working shoulder-to-shoulder on diverse 'frugal' innovations, cultivating more creative problem solvers, and ultimately resulting in better, more sustainable innovations". 
-James Lacefield, Professor and Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Western University 

Meet our Engineering Health Equity Fellowship Recipients! 

Etagegnehu Dagnachew Feleke

Low-Cost Loop-Medicated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) System for Malaria Diagnosis

 

Laura Vancer

Standardizing Wrist Radiography Across Canada: Validating the TRU-VU Wrist Positioning Aid

Nina Randolph-Koranteng

Project Title: TBC  

Olusoji Ogunbode

An Unobtrusive Wearable Sensing Device for People with Parkinson's Disease

Rebecca Nansubuga 

Piloting the Frugal Surgical Fracture Table for Muskoskeletal Trauma in Uganda  

Sara Khan

Open-Source Solar Powered DC Nanogrid for Medical Applications

Henry Ssemunywa

Cost-Effective Micro-Physiological Models to Study Human-Papilloma Virus Transmission

Sirui Gao

Low-Cost Intraoral Camera and Tele-Dentistry System 

Randima Bandara

Frugal 3D Ultrasound Development for Underserved Healthcare Settings 

Kato Hussein Wabbi

Development of an Edge AI-Based Predictive Maintenence System for Critical Medical Equipment in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings