Sustainable development challenge for BME

Abstract

You have been given the challenge to contribute to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. After you choose Women's Health and Ghana as a target country, you call an alum working in rural Ghana in the Peace Corp. She puts you in touch with a nonprofit working with traveling doulas. Through your conversations and research you find that birthing position is the most prevalent cause of mother and infant complications. over the next two weeks you design, build and test a portable birthing table that can be carried as a backpack. Two years later a more refined version of your prototype is being used in the field in Ghana.