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.
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.
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.
Professor Youseph Yazdi, director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design in the Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, tells us how he and his team have tried to improve the design of the Ebola protective suit. Listen here.
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 […]
Voice of America reported on last month’s Ebola Design Challenge, a JHU/JHPIEGO effort to create a new and better Ebola protective suit. Read the story here or view the video alone here.
With the goal of reducing the risk of infection among frontline health workers, an Emergency Ebola Design Challenge event will be held this weekend, Oct. 24 to 26, on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus. Participants from the university will be asked to help improve the design of personal protection gear that health workers wear and use while treating patients […]
