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This will be a multi-contributed reference work, that will detail the latest research and developments in humanitarian engineering from a biomedical perspective. Contributions will be made by world class scientists and researchers from across the globe. These individuals are actively involved with discovering and creating solutions in addressing a wide variety of health and disease concerns pertaining to the enormous challenges facing many people primarily in Low/Middle Income (and now European) and homeless populations in many of the world’s largest cities.
Key Features:
- Presents the challenges and opportunities of humanitarian engineering
- Introduces biomedical engineers, radiation oncology health professionals, primary care givers and other health professionals to humanitarian engineering principles.
- Case studies will be incorporated where appropriate, demonstrating in-field clinical treatments to disadvantaged populations.
- Unique coverage of phytomedicine (Cannabis) products in global health.
- Important topic of ‘Street Medicine’ to be included. -Each chapter will be designed to be a stand-alone item for appropriate use
- Provides comprehensive coverage of information and communication technologies (e.g. telemedicine and artificial intelligence (AI) for global health
- Extensive references will be included at the end of each chapter to enhance further study.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering: Scope, Challenges, Opportunities and Experiences from programs at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University, by Wil Ngwa
Chapter 2: Biomaterial drones for delivering radiotherapy and immunotherapy in resource-poor settings, By Wilfred Ngwa
Chapter 3: Computer engineering and artificial intelligence for global health, Hugo Aerts, Harvard Medical School
Chapter 4: Information and Communications technologies in Humanitarian engineering by Victor Mbarika, Professor and President of ICTU University Cameroon.
Chapter 5: Engineering and Sustainable Community Development, by Juan Lucerna , Professor at Colorado School of Mines
Chapter 6: Engineering Medical Cannabis and other phytomedicine products for global health, by Drs Ngeh Toyang, and Henry Lowe, Flavocure Biotech and Dr Sandra Carillo, Professor, University of Panama
Chapter 7: Medical Physics for World Benefit (MPWB), by Jake Van Dyk, Founder of MPWB, The Netherlands
Chapter 8: Sustainable energy for the developing world, experimental fluid mechanics, and microfluidics for biological and energy applications by Kendra Sharp, Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Richard and Gretchen Evans Professor of Humanitarian Engineering, Oregon State University
Chapter 9: Clinical Engineering in global health, by Prof. Dr. Golam Abu Zakaria, Chair of the South Asia Centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research (SCMPCR), Bangladesh
Chapter 10: Street Medicine by Joshua Mizels, President of the University of South Florida, Tampa Bay Street Medicine
Chapter 11: Lessons in Humanitarian Engineering: Proceedings of the 2023 Global Health Catalyst summit; This chapter will include 7 of the top proceedings from conference papers by leaders from all 6 World Health Organization regions of the world, presented at the 2023 Global Health Catalyst summit planned for the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Chapter 12: Engineers Without Borders and the Future of Humanitarian Engineering by Jonathan Pitts (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) and Wil Ngwa. This chapter will cover: Technology solutions to climate change, disaster response, and global health challenges and the future of the growing field of humanitarian engineering