A weekend design challenge to develop new protective gear for health workers fighting Ebola drew students, faculty, and clinicians from across Johns Hopkins University and beyond, along with $25,000 in state seed grants to support further development of the best ideas.

Jhpiego, a nonprofit global health organization and Hopkins affiliate, and the JHU Center for Biomedical Innovation & Design (CBID) hosted the Emergency Ebola Design Challenge to harness the brain power and expertise of the Johns Hopkins community to develop ways to better protect health workers on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The 65 participants included employees from the Johns Hopkins medical institutions, schools of Public Health and Engineering, and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as representatives from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a seamstress, an architect, and a robotics expert.

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