COVID-19 Hygiene Hub Expand view The COVID-19 Hygiene Hub is a free service that supports actors in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to rapidly design evidence-based hygiene interventions to combat the coronavirusThe COVID-19 Hygiene Hub is a broad partnership housed at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) that draws on scientific, operational, and creative expertise from a network of organisations. This initiative was developed by individuals from LSHTM, the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST), and the Wash’Em team.The strategic direction of the COVID-19 Hygiene Hub will be guided by leading international agencies to ensure it remains responsive and adaptive to the changing nature of the pandemic https://hygienehub.info/en/covid-19
Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities USA Expand view https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17411130
Bath Institute for Medical Engineering|The Wolfson Centre|Royal United Hospital UK Expand view Coombe Park Bath BA1 3NG BIME is a design and development charity in the field of medical engineering. Its main focus is the design of assistive technology for disabled people. A large number of projects are underway at any given time covering a wide range of equipment from simple aids for daily living, through educational support, mobility, communication, patient handling equipment etc, up to rehabilitation robotics and smart homes https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/For_Clinicians/departments_ruh/medical_physics/bime.asp
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) UK Expand view Fairmount House 230 Tadcaster Road York YO24 1ES UK Physicists, engineers and technologists play vital roles in delivering our healthcare. IPEM is the professional organisation that represents this workforce. We are a charity with more than 4,600 members from healthcare, academia and industry.Some members help to ensure that patients are correctly diagnosed and safely treated for illnesses such as cancer and stroke through their work on imaging and radiotherapy. Some develop, maintain and manage medical equipment such as MRI and ultrasound scanners, X-ray machines, drug delivery systems and patient monitors. Other members' research and innovation leads to new technologies and methods that improve on existing medical treatments. They provide new solutions that enable people with injuries or long-term conditions to complete everyday task https://www.ipem.ac.uk/
Nottingham Trent University Medical Engineering Design Research Group UK Expand view The Medical Engineering Design Research Group (MEDRG) at Nottingham Trent University is an interdisciplinary group, which brings together a wide range of academics, clinicians, surgeons, healthcare companies and other medical professionals whose interests focus on medical engineering design across a wide range of research specialisms. https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/medical-engineering-design-research-group
