Engineering World Health

Engineering World Health and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA... 

It can be easier to recognize a social enterprise than to define it. The Goodwill, the Boy Scouts, the American Heart Association, and a local soup kitchen are all easily recognizable examples of social enterprises. For bioengineers, organizations like PATH, Project Impact, Benentech, and Engineering World Health typify the social enterprise. 

In 1999,1 dreamed of a way my students and I could use our unique talents as engineers to help those in need. I had lived in Thailand, and my colleague. Dr. Mohammad Kiani, had lived in Iran. We knew that there were places that could use our help, but we did not know how to match our skills with their needs. After two years of talking, visiting, and meeting, and many hours of frustration. Engineering World Health was born. 

Diesel and gasoline engine exhausts and some nitroarenes. In IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, vol 46 (World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 1989). 

Once the hospital administration appoints a qualified individual as director of clinical engineering, the person usually functions at the department-head level in the organizational structure of the institution and is provided with sufficient authority and resources to perform the duties efficiently and in accordance with professional norms. To understand the extent of these duties, consider the job title for clinical engineering director as defined by the World Health Organization (Issakov et al., 1990) ... 

Eliassen was a known expert in drinking water and waste disposal engineering. He has written numerous papers in specialized journals, and a notable book as a co-author, dealing with the principles and the management of solid wastes. Besides his academic career, Eliassen was also a consultant He was a partner of the firm Metcalf Eddy, Boston MA, from 1961 to 1973, then until 1988 a chairman. He was furflier a consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, the World Health Organization WHO of United Nations, Executive Office President of the California Water Resources Federal Power Commission, and of the US Senate Commission on Public Woiks. 

Monograph Series 31 1-205. World Health Organisation Geneva, Switzerland. Jennings, B.H., Berry, D.S. (1979). Harold B. Gotaas. Memorial tributes 1 109-111. National Academy of Engineering Washington DC. P... 

James K. Bartrum, Coordinator, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health, World Health Organization Headquarters Sustainable and Affordable Health The Roles of Water Engineering and Water Engineers... 

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