Global Health Initiative

The Global Health Initiative (GHI) at CIMIT is a program designed to promote research and collaboration geared toward improving healthcare in developing countries.  The program focuses on new technologies, and it encourages investigators to adopt a “setting-driven” approach in which the needs of specific users are carefully considered throughout the product development process.  One issue of importance to the GHI is the need to increase the sustainability of medical technology provided to communities with few healthcare resources.  Technology that works well in developed healthcare systems does not always work well when separated from the infrastructure of a developed healthcare system.  The GHI promotes a broad vision of global health that involves not only technology but also the context in which the technology will be used. 

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