(Above) Middle School participants of Ignite's Learner Program. (Below) High School students, part of Ignite's Makers Program, present on their designs. As part of the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies (GWHT)‘s broader vision to train the next generation of innovators, the Duke Ignite program introduces middle and high school students to engineering design, human-centered problem solving, and real-world challenges aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Devel

GWHT Translational Fellows Rebecca Farrar (second from left) and Maia Raynor (far right) collaborate with Kenyan medical professionals on implementing the Pocket Colposcope in cervical screenings. As GWHT advances patient-centered technologies for cervical cancer screening, a central focus is training the people who can carry this work into clinical settings. The Translational Fellows Program, developed and led by Executive Director Marlee Krieger, plays a key role in this e

The speculum (left) has long been used for cervical exams; the Callascope (right) is designed to improve comfort and accessibility Cervical cancer is one of the few cancers that is largely preventable. Screening can detect early, pre-cancerous changes long before they become life-threatening. Yet hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease each year, largely because screening never happens. Improving outcomes requires more than effective diagnostics. It require