ABC News reported that a suit designed by a team at Johns Hopkins to protect health care workers treating patients with Ebola made its debut at New York’s Fashion Week last week. The story focuses on Jill Andrews, a Baltimore clothing designer, who has been working with the Hopkins team on the suit since last October. […]
China Central TV America reported on a new, improved suit designed at Johns Hopkins to better protect health care workers who are treating Ebola patients. View the compete story here.
WIRED reported that a JHU team has developed a prototype protective suit to better shield healthcare workers on the front line of the epidemic. The suit—which uses several zippers and fasteners to fall off and peel outward, away from the wearer so they need not touch the outer surfaces—evolved through a design challenge USAID launched last fall. The […]
CBS Baltimore (WJZ-TV 13) reported on a JHU team’s design of a new, improved suit intended to protect health care workers caring for patients with Ebola. The design won an international competition staged by the USAID. Learn more here.
NPR reported that the winning design in USAID’s recent Ebola Grand Challenge came from a team of more than 80 researchers and students at Johns Hopkins, beating out 1,500 other entries. Learn more here.
Fast Company reported on the JHU team’s design of a new “breakaway” Ebola suit that was among the winners in an international competition through USAID. Read the story and see the video here.
Gizmodo ran a story (and video) on a new Ebola protective suit — created by a Johns Hopkins team during the recent Ebola Design Challenge — that is designed to peel off easily, minimizing the wearer’s exposure to contamination from Ebola. The design was among the winners of an international competition through USAID. View the story — and watch […]
The Washington Post reported that USAID selected a protective suit designed by a Johns Hopkins team as one of the winners in a global competition for solutions to increase the protection and comfort of front-line workers battling Ebola. Read the complete story here.
The New York Times reported that a JHU-designed protective suit for health care workers treating Ebola patients is one of the first five winners of the Ebola “Grand Challenges” contest announced in October by the United States Agency for International Development Read the complete story in the New York Times here.
An advanced protective suit for health care workers who treat Ebola patients, devised by a Johns Hopkins team, is one of the first five awardees in a federal funding contest aimed at quickly devising new tools to combat the deadly disease. The Johns Hopkins prototype is designed to do a better job than current garments […]
