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Mission
The Global Health Design Collaboration (GHDC) of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) of Cleveland, OH is a multi-level interdisciplinary organization that aims to integrate social science and engineering disciplines in the development of relevant, sustainable solutions to health concerns in Uganda. Specifically, GHDC seeks to utilize the theoretical perspectives and methodologies of sociocultural anthropology to identify local health concerns within an emic model, and then apply these factors as inputs to an engineering design process to produce culturally appropriate and sustainable solutions.

Membership Benefits
- Engineer and prototype culturally relevant, sustainable solutions to healthcare problems in Uganda
-Foster a collaboration between CWRU and Makerere students
-Combine different disciplines of thought to better approach global health problems
-Develop cultural competency during spring break trip to test prototypes/conduct user needs finding in Uganda alongside Makerere University counterparts
-Successfully maintain engineering projects until full solutions have been implemented
-Have students from a variety of disciplines and degrees work together on the same projects
-Technical skills: design thinking training (testing, validation), insight into medical system infrastructure, fabrication and prototyping processes
-Soft skills: collaboration and communication (within team, with stakeholders/advisors), creativity, analytical thinking, empathy, project management, scientific/pitch presentation experience

For more info about the teams or joining GHDC, visit our linktree! (linktr.ee/ghdc_cwru)