3rd Annual VCU Global Health Showcase: Making it Work, Getting it Right

The 3rd annual Virginia Commonwealth University Global Health Showcase is coming up on April 20, 2015. This is an all day event featuring an exciting keynote from Dr. Tom Kerkering discussing his experience with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, several breakout sessions and a poster session featuring global-health related work from trainees across the university. This year's meeting is called "Making it Work, Getting it Right." The theme of the meeting is giving students and faculty key tools to engage in global health work.

VCU EWB students trailing a novel water catchment device
in Yoro, Honduras, June 2014

Prior showcases have been a wonderful opportunity to network, share ideas and build new relationships. The first showcase led to our program's (the Global Health & Health Disparities Program, GH2DP) current partnership with VCU's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter. This relationship has led to the development of several novel clean water technologies for use in rural Latin America as well as helped support or ongoing clean water campaign in Yoro, Honduras.

VCU EWB students trailing a new biased filter,
Richmond, VA, 2015

It is not too late to register and come out for the showcase on April 20th! Details about the showcase (including the agenda) can be found here.

2015 GH2DP-Engineers Without Borders Collaboration

VCU EWB students working with a 

biosand filter prototype 

We are very excited to be collaborating again with VCU's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter for our upcoming outreach trip in June.

This year there are plans on trialing a new biosand filter that may ultimately provide clean drinking water to people in very remote regions of Honduras. The EWB group has created a prototype device and has plans to systematically study this over the next few months and on the ground in Honduras this upcoming June. The group also will re-trial a novel water catchment device first deployed in Honduras in June 2014.

EWB students Lucas Potter and Kristina Kelly deploying a
novel water catchment device in La Hicaca, Honduras, June 2014