Over this past weekend, some of our members (Amy Li, Ella Bylsma, Kennedy Knopf, Lydia Chen, Emma Arnhols, and Maisha Rahman) had the opportunity to represent Project MESA and showcase our work from this past year! We presented a redesign of our portable, gynecological examination table, emphasizing its cost reduction aspects and the various grants sources we secured for this new iteration's manufacturing. Shoutout to all of the other M-HEAL project teams for their hard work this semester and a big thank you to the M-HEAL executive board for organizing this incredible opportunity!!
Project MESA
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Ann Arbor, Michigan 49 followers
Transforming Women's Health: Safe, Accessible Gynecological Exams, One Table at a Time
About us
Despite being a treatable and preventable disease, cervical cancer continues to claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of women each year. More than 90% of new cases and deaths are concentrated in low- and middle-income nations, according to the World Health Organization. This situation is complicated by the undersupply of proper diagnostic healthcare equipment in many clinics within these regions. Our mission at Project MESA is to increase the availability of cervical cancer screenings in under-resourced communities and countries to improve overall healthcare accessibility. Collaborating with our partner communities and clinics in Peru and Kenya, we are actively engaged in the development and improvement of a portable, durable, safe, and affordable medical table that allows for optimal patient positioning for gynecological examinations.
- Website
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https://www.projectmesa.bme.umich.edu/
External link for Project MESA
- Industry
- Medical Equipment Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2010
Locations
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Primary
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-3452, US
Employees at Project MESA
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Vibhasri Davuluri
Student at the University of Michigan
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Maisha Rahman
Industrial and Operations Engineering Student at University of Michigan
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Jill Pollon
Biomedical Engineering Student at University of Michigan
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Laura Wu
Industrial and Operations Engineering & Computer Science @ University of Michigan
Updates
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This past weekend, some of our members (Grace Robertson, Asmita Tuladhar, Huiyi Lin, and Arya Kamat) had the opportunity to represent Project MESA and participate in the MSU HEAL Sexual Health Conference! We were able to present our research detailing the impact of our portable, gynecological examination table in Peru and meet with so many students, faculty, and other conference attendees all passionate about advancing sexual health equity outcomes through community engagement and discussion. Thank you to MSU HEAL organizers for this amazing opportunity! https://lnkd.in/eZZV4qSN
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Hello, we’re so excited to be on campus again! We’ve been busy these past weeks at the LBME. After working with and consulting our community partners last year, we embarked on a journey to make our table more affordable and cost-effective. Last year, we revised and finalized our user needs and design specifications, dynamically tested the last table design, generated concepts for the individual components of our table, improved our surveys for data collection, and submitted publications. This semester, we are building upon our research to finish a new prototype for our table, creating a backpack design for our table to make it more portable, improving our data collection methods to facilitate an impact analysis, exploring the possibilities of using our table in the US, and competing in pitch competitions to gain funding and more credibility. We’re excited to take you along with us on our journey this semester! #mheal #womenshealth #engineering #umich
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