Two students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Taoheed Oyewo, and Ayanwole Emmanuel, have won the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award held in Texas.
Team Pathfinder, which included two students from LAUTECH and two teams from the University of Lagos, UNILAG, was shortlisted from Nigeria to participate in the competition.
Other international institutions that also participated in the 2023 Global Design Health Competition include Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Rochester, Saint Louis University, the University of Los Andes, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Bangladesh University of Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Rice University Institute for Global Health Technologies 13th Annual Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition featured various student teams from national and international universities who presented low-cost technologies they have designed to address global health challenges in resource-limited settings
