Course Offerings
GWHT offers a suite of courses that cover topics directly linked to the activities of the center. These courses serve to cover concepts in human centered design, the scientific method, and implementation science all of which are essential for translating ideas to impact. Below is a list of our current course offerings.
BME 290 - Biomedical Engineering for Global Health: Cancer, Inequity, and Technology
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BME 290 provides a thorough introduction to the historical and current role that technology and innovation has played in cancer management and prevention in the 21st century in relation to its capacity to bridge disparities. Through the lens of technology, students will explore a variety of perspectives impacting the complexity of cancer care. Students will develop knowledge applicable to a future career in medical technology development, public health, and biomedical research, and skills encompassing data analytics, statistics, and clinical trial design.
BME 462L - Design for the Developing World
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Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: BME 354L; senior standing.
Bass Connections - Improving Students' STEM-Identity Through Design and Tinkering
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EHD 395T/396T (Undergraduate) & EHD 795T/796T (Graduate) is a course in which the student team evaluates the components of a middle- and high-school engineering experience called Ignite, where over 60 undergraduates have taught more than 200 Durham-area students with the aim of increasing STEM knowledge and retention while bolstering community identity.
Bass Connections - Disruptive Innovation and Policy in Healthcare
This year-long project seeks to improve access and affordability of cervical cancer detection to pilot sites in the United States. With a team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, and graduate and undergraduate students, we seek to bring life-saving preventative care to under-served rural areas. Students will develop an understanding of the history of the American health system and its policies and then apply this to create business pitches and stakeholder presentations for the promotion and implementation of disruptive technologies in the U.S.
