MIT’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening and expanding the orthotic and prosthetic sector within the African nation.
University placements through MISTI aim to contribute to Africa’s growing research ecosystems.
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.
“I get the chance to not only watch the future happen, but I can actually be a part of it and create it,” says Ugandan entrepreneur Emmanuel Kasigazi.
Rising junior in Course 6-9 was “brave and compassionate” and strove to lift up others.
Skills learned in the classroom are applied toward health and sanitation projects.
MIT spinoff Takachar converts agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel, and wins Earthshot Prize.
An interdisciplinary team is developing a mobile health platform that uses AI to detect infection in Cesarean section wounds.
Graduate student Jana Saadi works on making the product design process more creative and inclusive.
The PhD student seeks to improve patient care by helping facilities use their limited resources more effectively.
CassVita, founded by an MIT alumnus, has created a biotechnology to increase the shelf life of cassava, a nutritious but perishable root vegetable.
MIT political science master’s student Milain Fayulu is building brands to bring change to his home country.
MIT alumni-founded OnePower is building minigrids to power villages across the small, mountainous country.
The program’s inaugural honoree, Professor Mohamed H. A. Hassan, president of the World Academy of Sciences, recently visited MIT.