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= Purpose =
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Engineering World Health has a long term goal to help build an international community of biomedical engineers with a free exchange of knowledge and information and, in building this community, to help end developing nations’ current dependence on developed nations for health technology and knowledge. A key part of their mission is the participation of students. The innovation to raise the awareness of global health challenges is powered by the creative perspectives of students to find new solutions to old problems. EWH strives to be recognized internationally as a leader in developing and introducing novel health care technologies for resource poor settings and mobilizing the biomedical engineering community to improve the quality of health care in developing countries. Engineering World Health is also a global leader in providing students and volunteers with the life-changing experience of contributing to improving the lives in vulnerable communities.
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= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
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Engineering World Health occupies a unique niche in that no other organization exists focusing on biomedical engineering education. They offer knowledge exchange and training of students/technicians from both the developed and the developing world in the service of improving health care delivery in the developing world. The use of a two sided branch program within the organization offers distinct training opportunities not available through any other program.
The BMET training program fulfills another unique need by creating professional training programs to empower developing nations to solve in-country health crisis with sustainable program initiatives.
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= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =
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In exchange for an annual fee to support the local chapter, the EWH provides comprehensive packages of financial benefits, guidance on how to operate a chapter and manage numerous activities that are interesting, fun and beneficial to the community as well as technical support throughout the year. Chapter members are also eligible for consideration for travel awards to participate in joint activities with other chapters either domestically or in developing countries.
At University of California San Diego (UCSD) the EWH chapter is working in collaboration with the [http://cfar.ucsd.edu/ UCSD Center for AIDS Research] and designing cost-effective lab equipment to run an HIV treatment analysis assay in resource limited settings. This nucleic acid test is used to detect drug resistant forms of HIV. By introducing methods of treatment surveillance to the developing world, the hope is to contain the spread of drug-resistant forms of HIV and preserve second and third lines of anti-retroviral medication. EWH at UCSD has begun work to design automated devices for viral RNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification, and gel electrophoresis. [[File:UCSD EWH.jpeg|400px|Engineering World Health UCSD Chapter]]
EWH is in touch with groups around the world who are looking to form chapters. The following universities currently have student chapters in good standing for the 2012-2013 academic year:
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Case Western Reserve University
Clemson University
Cornell University
[https://wiki.duke.edu/display/engworld/Home Duke University]
ITESM Chihuahua, Mexico
[http://chapterewhmty.blogspot.mx/ ITESM Monterrey, Mexico]
Johns Hopkins University
[http://www.ewhlund.org/ Lund University, Sweden]
Marquette University
NIBE-Nigeria
North Carolina State University
[http://ewh.mccormick.northwestern.edu/ Northwestern University]
Purdue University
[https://sites.google.com/site/stonybrookewh/ Stony Brook University]
[http://ewh.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University]
[http://ewh.ucsd.edu/ University of California, San Diego]
[http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/prof/bmes/EWH.html University of Illinois at Chicago]
University of Maryland, College Park
[http://umich.edu/~mheal University of Michigan]
University of Portland
University of Texas, Austin
[http://ewbwashu.org/ Washington University in St. Louis]
[http://ewh-ust.weebly.com/index.html Yemen University of Science and Technology]
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