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