NPR reports on a successful partnership between UW CSE and Seattle-based global health non-profit PATH:
“Each year, 800,000 children under the age of 5 die because they didn’t have access to breast milk — close to 1 out of every 8 infant deaths, most of which occur in developing regions …
“Now there’s a simple device called FoneAstra that, when combined with a smartphone, can pasteurize milk so a bank can be set up almost anywhere …
“PATH … partnered with technologist Rohit Chaudhri of the University of Washington to develop FoneAstra.”
Check it out here.