The Global Health Design Collaborative (GHDC) is a student organization that works with Makarere University in Uganda to improve health outcomes in Rural Uganda. In this project, an improved vaccine carrier was designed and built to help medical personnel increase vaccination rates in remote villages. Existing vaccine backpacks were bulky and non-ergonomic, making it harder to reach remote villages by foot without the vaccines heating up and denaturing. The new backpack, designed and built using the textiles resources at think[box], allowed clinicians to transport an insulated vaccine cooler faster and with less physical strain, helping to increase successful vaccination rates.

Students at the CWRU School of Dental Medicine utilize 3D scanning and printing technology in order produce these models which are used to create invisible aligners in a thermoforming process. Invisible aligners are less invasive, more comfortable, and more aesthetically pleasing than traditional dental braces.

Researchers in the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory at CWRU created this phantom to test Computed Tomography (CT) machines. The phantom simulates the human body so the researchers can calibrate the machine and study a phenomenon called beam hardening. Beam hardening causes the edges of a material to appear "brighter" which can lead to misdiagnoses in patients. By researching beam hardening, these researchers are developing a method to correct the results of a scan and ensure better outcomes for patients.

Steven Gutierez, a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Art, demonstrates our symbiotic relationship with plants and trees through interactive art. This welded metal sculpture uses LEDs to visualize photsynthesis. Sensors embedded in the tree sense carbon dioxide so that as observers breathe onto the tree the lights react as they "process" the breath back into oxygen.