We have reached a major milestone! We are delighted to officially announce that The MacArthur Foundation has selected our “Women-Inspired Strategies for Healthcare (WISH): A Revolution Against Cervical Cancer” among the Top 100 out of 755 proposals.

Where there’s a problem, there’s a solution. And where you’ll find answers, you’ll find agents of change helping to shape the world and make it a better place. Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam , the Robert W. Carr, Jr., Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and Director of the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, has dedicated her career to addressing gender inequities in STEM education and sexual and reproductive health, which she sees as two sides of the same coin.

The past eight years Duke researchers at the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, have been working to develop low-cost, portable cervical cancer screening devices called the Pocket Colposcope and the Callascope. These novel technologies have the potential to expand access to cervical cancer screening and diagnosis worldwide, especially in low- to middle- income countries.