Originally from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-houston-doctors-african-challenge-1498238900 Twelve years ago, Rebecca Richards-Kortum took a weeklong research trip to Malawi to see local hospitals and medical facilities. At one hospital, the bioengineer saw babies lying on cots next to medical equipment destroyed by dust and humidity. As a researcher and designer of medical devices in a lab, she found the trip shockingly eye-opening: “I went in the hospital one person, and I