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Engineering World Health: Students Helping the World's Poorest Hospitals
Robert Malkin, Duke University
May 11, 2007
Abstract
Engineering World Health is an extraordinary fusion of engineers, scientists and physicians who donate their time and talents to positively impact the quality of healthcare in disadvantaged areas around the world. We deliver, develop, install and maintain medical equipment in some of the world's poorest hospitals. Engineering World Health runs a summer program for undergraduates which visits Nicaragua, Honduras, Tanzania, El Salvador and Mexico after a month of training in either Costa Rica or Tanzania. Through the Duke-EWH CUREs program, business majors and engineers team up to design and distribute new equipment to solve developing world problems and promote entrepreneurship.
Biography
Dr. Robert Malkin is the director of Engineering World Health and a Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Previously, he was the Herbert Herff Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee and The University of Tennessee. Before moving to Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1993. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers and worked for Sarns Incorporated designing heart lung machines. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan is 1984. Dr. Malkin has received numerous awards, including service awards from The Republic of Nicaragua; IEEE - Memphis, EM Microelectronics and Cordis Corporation; the Jefferson Award, an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from The College of Engineering, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and an award for Innovation and Excellence in Undergraduate Education from The President of The City College of New York.