Overview
The University of Michigan’s Health
Engineered for All Lives, or M-HEAL, is a student group that began in the fall
of 2006. The group formed when a number
of graduate and undergraduate engineering students came together with a shared
concern for global health disparities.
Motivated by this concern and eager to make use of the members’
engineering educations, M-HEAL developed a mission of addressing the unmet
medical technology needs of developing nations. Today
the group has grown to over 20 dedicated members who work to repair, design,
and build medical equipment for needy medical facilities around the world.
Aims
Design medical equipment for the developing world
Repair medical equipment to distribute to developing world clinics
Understand health care needs and disparities that relate to technology
Work towards establishing social enterprises to distribute M-Heal designed equipment
Support University of Michigan medical relief trips
Find opportunities for members to accompany medical relief trips
