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Several Houston students have found a way to change the world and use their own money to do it, by investing modest sums in small entrepreneurial ventures in impoverished countries. And it works. |
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Upcoming Events
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Tuesday April 14th 6:00pm Beyond Traditional Borders 2009 GLHT Speaker Series Jessica Flannery: KIVA Shell Auditorium
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Friday April 17th 6:30-7:30pm World Affairs Council Houston
Wangari Matthai: A Vision for Africa Westin Galleria, Plaza Ballroom
5060 West Alabama |
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Saturday April 18-19th 7:00pm Unite for Sight 6th Annual Global Health Conference
Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation Yale University New Haven, Conneticut |
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Thursday April 23rd 6:00pm Rice 360
In Business for Global Health Cohen House
RSVP to jmw@rice.edu
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Tuesday May 26-30th 3:00pm |
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An initiative for the advancement of appropriate,
high-value innovations in global health biotechnology
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Global Health Challenge Project
A team of Rice senior design students developed a lab in a backpack to help physicians deliver health care in remote areas of developing countries. |
BTB International Intern, Lesotho
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CALL for Global Health Challenge Design & Research Projects Contribute your ideas to the BTB portfolio of global health technology design and research projects!
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Owls Beyond Borders Internship Blog - Summer 2009 Share in the tales and images of Rice University undergraduates - Katy, Lindsay, Yiwen, Elizabeth, Andrea, Stacy, Grace, Robby, Ann, Karthik, Danielle, Amit, Jocelyn, Kelly, and Duncan - as they embark to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, Lesotho Ecuador, Swaziland, and Malawi on an 8 to 12 week international internship! |
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Lab in a Backpack is a diagnostic medical backpack that contains a portable energy source, which can power different diagnostic equipment within the backpack including a centrifuge, microscope, otoscope, opthalmoscope, and glucose monitor.
The backpack has been used by teams of Baylor College of Medicine physicians on two trips to Honduras, improving the care of more than 1000 clients. Introductory design students have refined the backpack for use by more than 20 physicians in Tanzania, Malawi, and Botswana.
Jenna is a senior bioengineering major, and she absolutely loves the Global Health curriculum within the BIOE department in fact, it is the reason she decided to stay a bioengineer! She is thrilled that she got to work in the BIPAI clinic in Lesotho in summer 2008 and implement the Lab in a Backpack project she worked on all spring semester. Visit the 
Read their accounts and broaden your knowledge of primary medical care in the developing world and the potential for new healthcare technologies in resource constrained settings.