Biomedical engineering for global health

Biomedical engineers have the distinct opportunity to improve global health.
Here, we highlight innovative technologies and health-knowledge gaps to show how engineering can go beyond human disease to tackle some of the WHO’s most pressing challenges:

The course will cover global health demographics and comparative health systems, plus selected major health problem areas.
Basic quantitative and design principles of biomedical engineering as well as introductory epidemiology principles will be covered, and examples will highlight of the impact of biomedical technology on global health.

To bridge this gap, bioengineering research providing affordable and effective lifesaving diagnostics and drugs to low- and middle-income regions is an urgent global health priority.
Antimicrobial resistance is a silent pandemic 2.

Bioengineering research and development can have the biggest impact in providing diagnostic and therapeutic solutions to combat the rising burden of noncommunicable diseases (such as: