Engineering World Health

The deadline to apply for EWH's 2024 Summer Institutes has been extended to February 15! 🗓️

🌎 Join over 1,500 alumni who have participated in this life-changing experience!

Here's what you need to know:

🗺 In 2024 you can join us in 🇬🇹 or 🇺🇬
👷🏽‍♀️ EWH Summer Institutes are open to undergraduates, graduate students, AND young professionals
💸 Financial aid is available! You can request financial aid within the application, and we have resources to help you fundraise.
🧡 We have dedicated funds available to support US-based Black women in STEM; partial to full scholarships are available!
➡️ The full application and instructions can be found at ewh.org/apply
❓ Have questions? Reach out any time at [email protected]!

Our Winter Institute with started this week! 🇬🇹

Our 2023 Annual Report is here! ❄️

Thanks to your support, in 2023 student volunteers from around the world provide much-needed technical support to hospitals and clinics through the EWH Institutes, directly contributing to improved healthcare delivery for communities in need.

Read about EWH's 2023 Institutes, University Chapters, virtual programs, STEM outreach programs and more: https://ewh.org/news/annual-reports/ (link in bio)

💙 Support our work in 2024 with a gift to our year-end campaign: https://ewh.org/donate/

There are 12 days left in our year-end fundraising campaign and we are just shy of $3,000! Will you help us reach our goal of $5,000 before the end of 2023? 🛠

Make a gift today to support EWH and our mission to inspire, educate, and empower the biomedical engineering community to improve healthcare delivery around the world in 2024! 🌎

Give today at https://ewh.org/donate/

Last weekend 11 students from UNSW Sydney arrived in for a 9-week Winter Institute with EWH! 🌏🛠

Today marks the end of their first week of training, which will prepare them to work independently repairing medical equipment in hospitals around the country during the second half of the program.

Learn more about the EWH Institutes and apply to join us this summer in Guatemala or Uganda: https://ewh.org/apply

We're almost halfway to our goal of $5,000 before the end of 2023! 💙🛠

Our message this year is simple: Saving equipment is saving lives. Our volunteers provide tangible support to hospitals around the world, helping keep critical medical equipment in service treating patients.

If you're able to, please consider supporting our work with a donation. No amount is too small to make a difference! Make a gift today at https://ewh.org/donate/

Help us build a healthier future for all the world's people with a gift to EWH 🌎💙🩺 Make a gift to our year-end campaign today at https://ewh.org/donate/

Check out what we accomplished with your support in 2023 at the link in our bio 🔗

"This ultrasound had been donated to the hospital in January 2023. It was starting to rust, and the main issue was that due to poor design the side door had fallen, disconnecting some main power supply cables. We reconnected them, secured the side door, and ran some tests. [The last third picuture is] from the testing we did on a woman pregnant with twins!" 🤰🏻

Although modern medical equipment is extremely complex, basic challenges continue to prevent proper operation in low-resource hospitals. Issues such as damaged cords, clogged filters, or even blown fuses can result in equipment being stored away or discarded.

Participants on our 2023 Summer Institute in repaired 182 pieces of medical equipment, including this ultrasound machine that had been donated 6 months prior and had previously been unusable.

💙 Support our 2024 volunteers with a gift to EWH's year-end campaign today: https://ewh.org/donate/

Students from Denmark Technical University repaired 86 pieces of medical equipment on our 2023 Summer Institute, including 15 oxygen concentrators and a number of blood pressure machines, infant warmers, TENS machines, pulse oximeters, and electrocardiograph machines 🛠

This weekend, 11 students from UNSW Sydney will land in Nepal for a Winter Institute, where they will spend 9 weeks on the ground working to continue our support of the Nepali healthcare system by returning more medical equipment to service.

EWH was founded in 2001 on the belief that university students can meaningfully contribute to low-resource healthcare systems across the globe. Student volunteers on the programs that we facilitate provide much-needed support to hospitals, directly contributing to improved healthcare delivery for communities in need.

💙 Support our work in 2024 with a gift to Engineering World Health's year-end fundraising campaign: https://ewh.org/donate/

Our year-end campaign launched last week on , and in just six days the EWH community has raised just under $2,000 to support EWH and our mission to improve healthcare delivery around the world! 🌎🩺

Our message this year is simple: Saving equipment is saving lives. Hospitals around the world don't have the resources they need to keep critical medical equipment in service, and as a result, the quality of care that they can provide is diminished. EWH volunteers provide much-needed support to hospitals, directly contributing to improved healthcare delivery for communities in need.

Help us reach our goal of $5,000 before the end of 2023: https://www.ewh.org/donate

"The most valuable part [of the Summer Institute program] for me was the relationship that we built both with the hospital and the host family, but also very much the other students. I have never had an experience like this and I will now have forever friends from all over the world. I thought the experience in the hospital and the work we were doing would be the biggest thing, but I now think the people we spent time with made everything even better." - Elisa, 2023 Summer Institute volunteer from Denmark

Over 5,000 miles away from home in Guatemala, Elisa not only made a difference for a community in need, but found forever friends along the way 🌍✈️🌎

🛠 Learn more and apply to join us in 2024: https://ewh.org/apply
💙 Support our work: https://ewh.org/donate/
Links in bio!

Thanks to YOU and the generosity of the amazing EWH community, we raised $1,155 on ! 💙🛠 We couldn't ask for a better start to kick off our year-end fundraising campaign!

It's not too late to join us: If you think what we do is important, please consider showing your support with a donation. No amount is too small to make a difference!

Help us reach our goal of $5,000 before the end of 2023: https://www.ewh.org/donate

Thank you for your investment in our shared future - together, we can improve healthcare delivery around the world! 🌍