Biomedical engineering


l International Standards Bodies should acknowledge and support the development of local regulatory pathways


Conclusion Ultimately, we must think beyond charity and confront an uncomfortable truth: the future of global healthcare technology isn’t just being imagined in Africa, it’s already here. We must work learn from failures of the past, not to stifle innovation with inappropriate aid, but to strengthen it through bi-lateral collaboration.


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About the authors


Peter Culmer is a Professor of Healthcare Engineering and Director of Post Graduate Research in the School of Mechanical Engineering. His expertise is in multidisciplinary research


on medical device technologies, particularly focusing on sustainability and global healthcare challenges. His current funding supports projects on sensors to identify diabetic foot ulcer risk, designing ‘frugal’ MedTech equipment for low-resource settings in India and Africa, and engineering to support ‘circular’ (reusable) medical devices. Pete is sustainability co-lead of the Leeds NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) for Accelerated Surgical Care, driving strategies to improve sustainability and reduce carbon emissions in the NHS sector. He sits on the Institute of Mechanical Engineers’ Biomedical Engineering Division committee and co-chairs their “Incontinence, An Engineering Challenge” conference series.


Brian Matovu is a biomedical engineering researcher and innovator working with Makerere University where he also assists in tutoring and lecturing students. He has a vested interest


in research and innovations around maternal


and child health and infectious diseases with focus on technologies and rapid diagnostics. He is the coordinator under the Center for design, Innovation and Translational Excellence (CITE) at Makerere University. He is also a lead and or coordinator on a number of projects including the Early Preeclampsia Detection Strip Project, the KeySuite Laparoscopic device, the LeVe CPAP system, MATICA-mathematics learning, phototherapy and UltraViolet light applications.


June Madete is an enthusiastic and dynamic engineer, researcher and senior lecturer, with over 16 years of experience in biomedical engineering training and research. Dr. Madete’s specialty is


biomechanics, looking at the body as a machine. Dr. Madete in the currently an academic scholar at Rice university in the GMI programme, where she is a co-instructor in the course. She founded the biomedical engineering programme at Kenyatta university and has worked with students from partner universities such as TU-Delft in the Netherlands and DKUT in Nyeri. As a qualified biomedical engineer, Dr. Madete’s passion lies in innovation and capacity building. She is involved in projects including the invention education project with Rice 360, East African Biodesign in collaboration with Stanford Biodesign, the University Based Open Biomedical Engineering Platform (UBORA) and the African Biomedical


Engineering Mobility (ABEM) project, that aims to capacity build students and staff on biomedical engineering across Africa. She is Coordinator of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium, (ABEC) that seeks to develop and market the biomedical engineering profession within Kenya through knowledge and skill transfer with students, lectures, scientists and the industry across various sets in Africa.


Roos Oosting is an Assistant Professor and founder of the Delft University Biomedical Engineering for Global Health Lab (www. bmeforglobalhealth. com). As part of the


Department of BioMecahnical Engineering she works on medical innovations to increase global access to safe and high-quality healthcare. Her expertise is in the design of context-specific medical technology and management of medical technology, especially in international settings. Her current projects focus on the development of affordable training phantoms for the training of safe deliveries (caesarean sections, vacuum- assisted deliveries, breach deliveries and more) developed by using 3D printed material and silicone. Additionally, in collaboration with hospitals in Kenya and Nepal she explores possibilities for using 3D printing to facilitate in keeping equipment in use, for example by printing spare parts.16


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Figure 6. Students have strengthened their skills.


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policy-and-standards/assistive-and-medical- technology/medical-devices/human- resources


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15. Matovu, B., Baluka, J.W., Takuwa, M.et al. Translating medical device innovations to market - a Ugandan perspective.BMC Res Notes 16, 262 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/ s13104-023-06541-6.


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