MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor - SANA



Global Health Innovations Using Mobile Applications

Eric Winkler, SANA - Software Development Lead

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Pre-registration and attendance at first meeting
Prereq: Interest in mHealth, telemedicine, global health, etc.

Want to develop real-world skills and knowledge that will make an impact on global health?
This course is focused on exposing engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers to the challenges of global health and provide the opportunity to develop skills necessary to build disruptive technologies.  Participants will examine, design, and prototype mHealth solutions for real public health issues.  Sample projects include: image processing for post-surgical wound monitoring, audiological signal processing, mHealth device design and manufacturing.  Prototypes will be developed using the Sana Platform, which is an Android-based, open-source, telemedicine project based out of MIT CSAIL. This course can be used by students as a primer for HST.936 which is offered in the Spring.  Sponsored by Sana and H@cking Medicine.

 

Prerequisites: Interest in mHealth, telemedicine, global health, and/or Android development experience.

Sponsor(s): SANA
Contact: Eric Winkler, iap@sanamobile.org


Jan/22 Tue 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/23 Wed 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/24 Thu 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/25 Fri 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162

Eric Winkler - SANA - Software Development Lead