Global Health: Scaling Health Technology
Innovations in Low Resource Settings

Constituency: Undergrads, Graduate students, Medical Students
Office: Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health

Recent advances in health technologies – incorporating innovations like robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and smart sensors – have raised expectations of a dramatic impact on health outcomes across the world. However, bringing innovative technologies to low resource settings has proven challenging, limiting their impact. Ironically, the current COVID-19 pandemic has become Exhibit 1 in the challenges the global health community faces in scaling innovative interventions. This course explores critical questions regarding the implementation and impact of technological innovations in low resource settings. 


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