Dean's Distinguished Speaker Rebecca Richards-Kortum presents "How Can Engineering Address Needs in Low-Resource Settings? Sustainable Solutions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health"

Join us at the Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring:

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Director of Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies at Rice University

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Speaker Bio

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., is the Rice University Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Director of Rice 360 Institute for Global Health. Her research has been instrumental in improving early detection of cancers and in developing and scaling affordable technologies to improve newborn and maternal health, especially in low-resource settings. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She received her Ph.D. in Medical Physics from MIT and her B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nebraska.

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