Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies offers post-baccalaureate fellowships for exceptional early-career engineers with an interest in medical technology for low-resource settings.Rice360 fellow, Shababa Matin, works on human factors and usability testing as part of her Rice360 Fellowship. Figure 1: Shababa Matin, Maureen Mebo Valle, and Lucky Mangwiro preparing for a usability study in Malawi Why is Human Factors important in Global Health? Evaluating usability is

Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies offers post-baccalaureate fellowships for exceptional early-career engineers with an interest in medical technology for low-resource settings. Rice360 fellow, Abby Chapin, works on the Colostomates Project, designing and evaluating low-cost ostomy bags. Figure 1: Abby Chapin testing ostomy bag prototype Colostomates Project: Overview of the Need The Colostomates project was started in 2018 by undergraduates in the Global Health

Benjamin Rice, Ph.D., from Princeton University, spoke about The Ecology of Infectious Diseases in a Changing World: Coronaviruses, Malaria, & Madagascar at Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies’ on October 20, 2022. Click here to view the recorded seminar. Dr. Rice and his team work on tracing factors impacting the prevalence and spread of malaria in various regions within Madagascar. Through their work, they are improving malaria-related data collection within th