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Creating, sharing, and using collaborative research practices, actionable findings, and practical solutions.

Hands-on, project-based learning. More than 15 MIT D-Lab classes offered each year!

Working with diverse partners to advance and apply inclusive innovation as a methodology for tackling poverty.

"Impact is not just the product of innovation – it's the process of innovation."

– Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab Founding Director

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Bringing safe surgery to patients everywhere

The MIT D-Lab-supported startup SurgiBox has developed a portable kit that doctors can use to create sterile operating environments in low-resource environments. The SurgiBox system includes a bubble with armholes facing inward, a module that filters and controls air flow, and a battery. The entire thing fits inside of a backpack and can be set up in minutes. Credits: Image: Courtesy of SurgiBox

News | May 22, 2023 | Zach Winn

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Bringing safe surgery to patients everywhere

The MIT D-Lab Participation Toolkit: A Suite of Tools for Understanding, Characterizing, and Implementing Participation in Development and Humanitarian Contexts

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs [1], with a design lens. Image: MIT D-Lab/Amy Smith and Martha Thompson

Publication | Apr 25, 2023 | Amy Smith, Martha Thompson

The MIT D-Lab Participation Toolkit: A Suite of Tools for Understanding, Characterizing, and Implementing Participation in Development and Humanitarian Contexts

Alum aims to prove that money does grow on trees

Kwami Williams ’12

News | Apr 25, 2023 | Stephanie M. McPherson

MIT Technology Review
Alum aims to prove that money does grow on trees

MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico

The members of the MIT D-Lab student project team (back row, left to right) Ian Rosado, Bilal Daqqah, Libby Hsu, Penelope Herrero-Marques, Shruthi Shekar, and Nour Al Maalouf, together with Perkins staff Emelia Hernandez Payan (front left) and Ernesto Santana Palma (front right) and Executive Director of Perkins International Katie Holland (front center), display the sequence of prototypes they designed to create a low-cost bathtub for children with disabilities. Photo: Courtesy of the Perkins Schoo

News | Apr 12, 2023 | Danna Lorch | Office of the Associate Provost for International Activities

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MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico

Participation for Humanitarian Innovation Tookit

Created by ERHLA and MIT D-Lab

Publication | Apr 05, 2023 | ERHLA and MIT D-Lab

Participation for Humanitarian Innovation Tookit

D-Brief: Access to Affordable Bicycles in Africa

Publication | Apr 03, 2023 | Dan Frey, Megha Hegde, Maggie Hsu, Gwyn Jones, Kendra Leith, Robyn Richmond, Jonars Spielberg, and Dan Sweeney

D-Brief: Access to Affordable Bicycles in Africa

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The Power of Co-Design: Advancing Global Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health

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This three-day conference, running November 7th to 9th, explores how co-design has enhanced sexual and reproductive health in communities in Colombia, Kenya, Brazil, and Peru. Participants will engage in co-design activities in an effort to develop a global network of researchers and activists committed to providing women and girls opportunities to design solutions to the sexual and reproductive health challenges they are facing in their lives. REGISTER!

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