2011 EWH Design Competition results announced

The EWH Design Competition seeks to reward the best teams of students who work on engineering projects directed at the needs of developing country health care. For the second year in a row, our judges picked the top three submissions based on their potential impact on global health as well as their feasibility, both technical and economic.

The winning team is the BP Team from the University of Oxford in the UK. Their submitted design is an automatic, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring system powered by a cell phone. This project has a very high potential in resource-poor settings where mobile phones are widely available whereas trained healthcare workers aren’t. The team will be using their $5,000 cash prize to continue work on their project.

In second place came a team of students from Purdue University. They designed a Low Cost HIV Disease Progression Monitoring Device. The third place went to the team from Johns Hopkins University which created a low-cost device to measure oxygen concentration output from oxygen concentrators in hospitals of resource-poor settings.

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