NEST360 releases the 2025 Newborn & Maternal Technology Landscape NEST360 researchers have announced the Newborn Technology Landscape | 2025 Edition. The updated Newborn & Maternal Technology Landscape provides an open-access, interactive database of over 130...
Olusola Oke is a NEST360 Invention Education team member and the Design Studio Assistant Manager at the University of Ibadan (UI) in Nigeria. Mr. Oke visited the United States in October 2022 as part of a bidirectional exchange program to meet his colleagues at Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360) and NEST360. While in the United States, Mr. Oke shared his insights on fostering innovation capacity through the UI design studio, presenting at conferences in San Antonio, Texas, and Seattle, Washington, and providing a guest lecture at Rice University. He shared the following reflections after his engagement in the bidirectional exchange program.
Announcing the first edition of the Innovation Landscape! A resource that catalogs innovations from NEST360 university partners. These innovations are created by students and aim to solve real healthcare challenges identified by their invention education curriculum.
Baby Incubator Designed for Electrical Outages Wins University of Ibadan First Annual Design CompetitionContributor: Padraic CasserlyBaby Incubator Designed for Electrical Outages Wins University of Ibadan First Annual Design Competition The University of Ibadan (UI)...
At the beginning of the global pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was in short supply due to global shortages. Hospitals across Africa were being left without adequate PPE. At the DIT Design Studio, we knew we could help by figuring out how to design, locally manufacture, and produce the PPE that the hospitals desperately needed. However, designing the right products for the community required developing a relationship with hospitals during a time of chaos and uncertainty.
BubbleCPAP machine wins DIT Design CompetitionContributor: Carrie NoxonOn May 25, 2021, the DIT Design Studio announced the winners of its first Annual Design Competition. The Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) Design Studio is an advanced maker space at the...
Becoming a hub for COVID-19 PreparednessContributor: Carrie NoxonTanzania is home to over 60 million people. Its largest city, Dar es Salaam, is home to five million people—a densely populated and vibrant port city. Located within this city, inside one of its many...
Our design studios again provided the environment needed to innovate and prototype. The space provided our teams a place to question, discover, and innovate about what designs can work here.