MedTech OneWorld Students e.V. warmly welcomes Julia Schmidbauer to our committee, where she continues Leonie Gartner’s great stewardship of MedTech OneWorld Students e.V., providing a home for innovative student projects. Elected by the general meeting, she joins Simon as Treasurer and Fabian in international collaborations. Julia’s impactful work in our […]
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Good dental hygiene is a very important part of one’s health and personal well-being. According to the WHO, it can affect self-esteem, school performance, and attendance to work or education. While it seems to us like a daily routine and fundamental part of personal healthcare for many people in Madagascar […]
Donation of prototyping funds Our Litum project is making great progress! As we now move towards building our first prototype, we are generously supported by the International Network for Cooperation in Mental Health (i.nez) with a prototyping fund of 2,500 EUR. Our friends from i.nez are dedicated to supporting […]
THE “LITUM” PROJECT Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder where affected individuals alternate between manic and depressive episodes. The most commonly used medication to help such people prevent future episodes is lithium, taken orally. In order to calibrate the proper dose of medication for each patient, it is important to […]
In cooperation with Planet Action e.V. and the Deutsch-Madagassischer Verein Esslingen e.V. (DMVE), MedTech One World Students e.V. (MTOWS) is working on establishing a production of sustainable bamboo toothbrushes in Madagascar. The project shall provide the local population with toothbrushes – a fundamental part of primary dental healthcare – and […]
THE PROJECT The current COVID-19 pandemic is causing worldwide challenges and exceptional circumstances. Since there is no vaccine or effective medicine available yet the only possibility to prevent a rapid spread among the population are personal hygienic measures such as keeping distance and following hygienic rules. Particularly in everyday encounters […]
Last May, Abel Hailegiorgis – the founder of Bamboo Things – came to Munich from Ethiopia to visit and work in a Bamboo Bicycle Club workshop. MTOWS supported him with networking and his daily life in Germany and he presented us his main project: the production of affordable bamboo wheelchairs. As […]
Our last but not least project of the Global Health Challenge is about optimizing the life cycle of medical devices. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? In this project we look more closely at the problem that many, otherwise functional, donated medical devices can not be used […]
In this post we’re introducing you to the team m3dical open library, which is a project that was developed during our Global Health Challenge. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? The solution: Infrastructure of 3D printing labs in Africa working principle of the website Workflow conventional […]
In today’s post we bring you another project developed for our first edition of the Global Health Challenge: FAST, the First Aid Scooter Tech. What is the problem and who is suffering because of it? This development is a solution for a problem in many cities, in which due to the […]
Our first Global Health Challenge is over! We had our final pitch day in the beginning of July, after 2 months of hard work. Four teams came up with some amazing prototypes and presented their ideas in front of a jury consisting of Dr. Eblenkamp (head of MedTech chair at […]
Max Schlegel and Adrian Holste are two members of MTOWs who have been writing their Master Theses in Ethiopia from November 2018 until April 2019. In this interview they talk about their amazing stay there and they invite other students to live the same experience as them. How did the […]
On April 10th, five members of MedTech OneWorld Students (MTOWS) visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to follow up on our existing partnerships and get in touch with potential future partners. They were joined by Adrian and Max, two other members of MTOWS, who had stayed in Ethiopia for l six months […]
In the next semester, MedTech OneWord Students is launching the Global Health Challenge. Within 2.5 months, students will develop medical devices in the context of Global Health. Therefore, on the Pitch-Day, participating students will present their ideas for the projects they want to work on and find team members who’ll […]
Global Health (GH) Winter School was held from 12th to 15th February in Munich at the TranslaTUM. The goal of this seminar was to introduce the students in the field of Global Health in terms of research and political relevance. For the first time, medicine and engineering students worked together […]