Apr 02 2022 to Apr 02 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Health care costs are an enormous burden on the economy. In addition, this lack of affordability and access is creating social fractures with increasing health-care access divisions in society. This session will describe emerging technologies that are designed to empower people to take charge of their own health.

The question our speaker poses is, how can technology be leveraged to empower people? A fascinating project that Dr. Rao have been privileged to work on is to develop the ability to manufacture medicines on demand- this was featured in Nature recently. The talk describes the fascinating background that led to this technology – how a US military doctor grew frustrated at his inability to get medicine in Afghanistan and created this technology.

Dr. Rao will then talk about his own experience in developing a simple cardboard incubator to tackle the problems of infant mortality and malnutrition. Such simple innovations can potentially make life-saving interventions available at very low cost – a kind of medicine on demand.