BME377T:Projects/Topics

Groups

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Group	Members	Topic	Description
1	Jose Gutierrez Abhishek Kashyap Susannah Payne Deepa Raghunathan Sudhir Shenoy	Water Conservation Education	Inform populations about the importance of conserving water and finding feasible methods of cleaning water systems in developing countries (& finding alternate water resources)
2	Bill Rodney Andrew Horton	Health and Poverty	Bringing technology for the creation of cooking charcoals from plant waste to indigenous communities in Mexico that are heavily affect by indoor air pollution and limited wood fuel supplies.
3	Jennifer Ge Spoorthy Gudavalli Stephanie Y. Orci Isis Trenchard	Education/Literacy	Creating a self-sustaining education system for developing countries
4	Athra Kaviani Paul Rezvani Pouya Feizpour Kishore Khan Matthew K. Hogan	Poverty
5	Angela Hsiao Daphne Hao Jessica Rodriguez Kaitlin G.
6	Cristina Garcia Clair Hollingsworth Melizza Rodriguez	AIDS Healthcare	Creating awareness about the need for generic AIDS medicines and developing affordable solutions for treating and preventing AIDS
7	Huda Abdul-Razzak Jenny Nguyen Randi Voss	Empowering Women	Help women achieve financial autonomy through fair trade clothing company

Topic Interests

Name	Topic 1	Topic 2	Topic 3
Abhishek Kashyap	refugees and related problems	slavery and caste system problems	lack of clean water
Andrew Horton	human rights (Haiti, US's Cuban policy, military takeovers)	health (treatable diseases i.e. TB, AIDS, malaria)	environment (conservation)
Angela Hsiao	clean up and protect natural resources	education for street/underprivileged kids	food and health for the poor
Athra Kaviani	public health	child education	literacy
Bill Rodney	shelter	hunger	education
Clair Hollingsworth	rural public health
Cristina Garcia	pharmaceutical corporations ethics (medical research on the poor, production generic medicines)	preventable diseases i.e. AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria (research, education)	world hunger and poverty
Daphne Hao	pollution control	education and job opportunities for former criminals, drug users, etc.	homeless kids, orphans, neglected children
Deepa Raghunathan	water systems (purifying water supplies, providing drinking water)	improving education (specifically literacy)	mental health concerns of first generation immigrants in the U.S.
Isis Trenchard	cleaning water/improving sanitation	creating scientific infrastructure in developing countries (preventing "brain drain")	helping education systems in developing countries
Jennifer Ge	children's rights	education	China care: healthcare, education, care for orphans
Jessica Rodriguez	homeless children or children with parents that can't care for them effectively	second hand smoking	pollution and its effect on health
Jose Gutierrez	education	environment
Kaitlin Goerner	AIDS in Africa	sex slave trade (children) in Thailand	starvation
Kishore Khan	ending global poverty	children workers/abuse prevention	helping kids get through college
Matt Hogan	poverty	social inequality	health education
Melizza Rodriguez	healthcare for the poor (medications for the poor)
Paul Rezvani	poverty	immigration	energy
Pouya Feizpour	poverty	child slavery	waste and recycling
Randi Voss	stop trafficking in people (sex trade using children - esp. thailand)	help women achieve financial autonomy through fair trade clothing company	art opportunities for everyone (maybe in austin)
Spoorthy Gudavalli	illiteracy among children in 3rd world countries	women empowerment	impoverished children
Stephanie Orci	promoting education in at risk areas	literacy for everyone (disabled, minorities)	microinvesting (esp. for women)
Sudhir Shenoy	unethical labor practices	poverty	education
Susannah Payne	education (increasing access to literature)	rural development	environmental education (global sustainability)