Aquaponic Farming System for Mfangano Island
In collaboration with a U.S. based, Kenyan registered, 501c3 non-profit, called the Organic Health Response, a team of interdisciplinary UCSF, UCB, and University of Minnesota undergraduate and graduate students coming from a range of different departments including, but not limited to: medicine, environmental science, architecture, and anthropology have created a hyper efficient bio-dynamic aquaponic farming … Continue reading “Aquaponic Farming System for Mfangano Island”
- Team Members: Kathryn Fiorella, Charles Salmen, Jason Nagata, Alan Jew, Matt Hickey, Elizabeth Goverson
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco
- 2011
The State of Ear Health and Rise of Tympanocentesis
Otitis Media (OM), more commonly known as a severe ear infection, is a medical condition that is caused by a variety of pathogens and affects 70% of all children under the age of three. Currently, most ear infections are treated with multiple rounds of antibiotics. With the onset of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, this type of treatment … Continue reading “The State of Ear Health and Rise of Tympanocentesis”
- Team Members: James Che, Elaine Lee, Trisha Bartlett, Amy Herr and Francis Chen
- Emerging & Neglected Diseases*, Global Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
Vietnam Tooth Project
Despite decades of child nutrition initiatives, the rates of malnutrition throughout the developing world have remained high, and there is a need to explore new strategies to address this problem. Among the strategies to reduce malnutrition, there has been little exploration of the role of severe tooth decay—which is an infectious disease and the most … Continue reading “Vietnam Tooth Project”
- Team Members: Tuyen Nguyen, Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, Long Pham, Michelle Ta, Kenny Chun and Wenting Guo
- Emerging & Neglected Diseases*, Global Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
A Healthy Smile
The Suitcase Clinic is a student-run organization that operates three drop-in centers for the homeless and low income community of the East Bay and Alameda County. This project will expand the Clinic’s services to include dental care. By addressing the dental care needs of underserved communities, A Healthy Smile will instill newfound confidence in clients. … Continue reading “A Healthy Smile”
- Team Members: Shalini Eragoda, Antoinette Siu, Charlie Shi, Sonia Sajja
- Global Health, Social Justice & Community Engagement
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
Nuestra Agua Safe Water Social Franchise
Diarrheal disease from drinking unsafe water is one of the leading causes of death in Mexico. Today, millions of Mexicans in low-income communities are still at high risk of waterborne diseases because of inadequate water infrastructure and insufficient water quality control. In particular, safe water remains unavailable to those who cannot afford commercially sold bottled … Continue reading “Nuestra Agua Safe Water Social Franchise”
- Team Members: Fermin Reygadas, Sheila Addams-Sapper, John Erickson, Teresa Gomez, Matt Kennedy, Courtney King, Devina Kuo, Nick Lee, Sarah Price, Shilpa Raja, and Aparna Ramakrishnan
- Global Health, Social Entrepreneurship
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
NextDrop
Water unavailability is a problem that families face in almost all of the cities in South Asia and in at least a third of the rest of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Millions of households have a piped water supply. However, water is only available through these pipes for a few hours at a time. … Continue reading “NextDrop”
- Team Members: Thejovardhana Kote, Emily Kumpel, Ari Olmos, Anu Sridharan
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
Mobilizing Health
Mobilizing Health is committed to increasing access to emergency and preventative healthcare for rural populations in developing countries through the use of mobile technology for medical advice and treatment. This is accomplished by using a text message-based platform to connect villagers to licensed medical practitioners in nearby towns and cities. Their goal is to help … Continue reading “Mobilizing Health”
- Team Members: Pooja Upadhyaya, Christian Fernandez, Katrina Hui, Nathan Fair, Jeff Hsu, Dennis Chan, Catalina Saldivia
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
MobileWorks
MobileWorks provides a platform that gives underemployed and impoverished individuals in the developing world the ability to earn supplemental income by doing work through their mobile phones. The organization accepts data entry and transcription contracts from a variety of sources-government programs in India, Western crowd sourcing companies, and traditional outsourcing companies–and sends this work to … Continue reading “MobileWorks”
- Team Members: Philipp Gutheim, Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula and David Rolnitzky
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2011
MicroFluidic Biomolecular Amplification Reader for Infectious Disease Agents in South Africa
The Microfluidic Biomolecular team is developing an integrated microfluidic system for simple and robust biomolecular amplification with an inexpensive reader to conduct a rapid and complicated analysis of a range of samples encountered in the field. They are targeting this microfluidic biomolecular amplification reader (MicroBAR) at global health diagnostics, with a specific focus on tuberculosis … Continue reading “MicroFluidic Biomolecular Amplification Reader for Infectious Disease Agents in South Africa”
- Team Members: Rick Henrikson, Frank Myers, Liyi Xu
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2011