Global health technology course at MIT yields new women's health company

 

Designing and Sustaining Technology Innovation for Global Health Practice is an NCIIA-funded course at MIT. Several E-Teams have formed in the class, including the SHE team – Sustainable Health Enterprises. The team has recently launched a self-titled company. SHE addresses women's lack of access to affordable, eco-friendly, sanitary products and services by helping local women in developing countries jump-start their own businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable, quality, and eco-friendly products.

“Starting and managing a course of this nature is a significant commitment,” says course instructor Jeffrey Blander about the course that inspired the new company, “The funding from NCIIA was extremely helpful and without it we would not have been able to get this off the ground.” SHE is currently working in Rwanda because of its urgent need for access to sanitary products and its existing well-established networks for women.

Learn more about the course or visit SHE's website.