Our Mission
To repair, design and build medical technology with the goal of improving access to healthcare in developing communities.
We aim to achieve our mission through a number of activities:
1. Design projects meant to address unmet medical needs in developing countries. To learn more about our low-cost surgical lamp, see Activities.
2. A survey of need that is sent with medical school groups and other groups around campus who travel to developing countries to work on medical, engineering or social change projects. The survey provides us with information about healthcare needs that we can use to generate new design project ideas. To view the survey, please click here. Contact us if you are part of a group going abroad and want to take our survey along!!
3. Volunteering at World Medical Relief to sort, test and repair medical equipment that is then sent to countries in need across the globe. To read more about our activities at World Medical Relief please see World Medical Relief Repair Trips.
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News
The M-HEAL Lamp Team has recently finished a prototype surgical lamp that is currently being tested in Uganda. Great job guys!
Click to see a video describing the surgical lamp.
Congratulations to Julia, the M-HEAL VP for being nominated as a Michigan Daily student of the year.
M-HEAL is featured in a video entitled "Engineering Social Change" that was produced by The College of Engineering and is being shared with incoming students and various groups around campus. Check it out here!
Recent Announcements
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3-15-09 Dr. Malkin's talk is online
In case you missed it, Professor Malkin's talk is online at http://inst-tech.engin.umich.edu/media/index.php?sk=dss-08
Posted Mar 15, 2009 1:51 PM by M-Heal Website
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3-11-09 CoE Dean's Seminar Series - Dr. Robert Malkin
Dr. Malkin is the founder of Engineering World Health and the director of Duke-Engineering World Health, as well as a professor of the practice of Biomedical Engineering at Duke ...
Posted Mar 4, 2009 10:43 AM by Annie Mitsak
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2-19-09 Updated Survey of Need
The 2009 M-Heal survey of need is now avaible. Please consider completing it if you are planning on visiting a developing world clinic. It can be downloaded from the ...
Posted Feb 19, 2009 8:45 PM by M-Heal Website
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2-3-09 Lamp Project Blog
The surgical lamp team has created a blog to post notes about their progress.
Posted Feb 12, 2009 7:49 PM by M-Heal Website
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1-26-09 Michigan Daily article
Check out the wonderful article that the Daily wrote up about us.
Posted Feb 12, 2009 7:40 PM by M-Heal Website
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