Our Mission
To engineering design, in combination with needs assessment and social entrepreneurship to improve access to healthcare in underdeveloped communities.
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. Our goal is to apply the knowledge of engineering students to work in global health. Today we do this through repair sessions at World Medical Relief, implementing a survey to evaluate unmet medical needs in hospitals in the developing world, and designing a surgical lamp to meet one such need: reliable lighting. M-HEAL is also involved in social entrepreneurship, and plans to use our designs to create socially responsible business ventures. We are a very diverse group, consisting of graduate and undergraduate students from various departments in the College of Engineering, the Medical School, and the College of Literatures, Sciences and the Arts. We are accepting new members all throughout the year, so come join us at a meeting!
Aims
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Design medical equipment for the developing world
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Repair medical equipment to distribute to developing world clinics
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Understand health care needs and disparities that relate to technology
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Work towards establishing social enterprises to distribute M-HEAL designed equipment
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Find opportunities for members to support and accompany University of Michigan medical relief trips
Milestones
2008-2009 Academic Year
2007-2008 Academic Year
2006-2007 Academic Year
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