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Tech Awards 2010

Check out HuffingtonPost’s slide show of Tech interventions that could save the world.

I think the first item they mention, the air-pressure driven injection system, is most exciting. I have a soft spot for vaccines to aid development and I think this could be a huge success. Interestingly, there has also been talk of genetically engineering foods to contain vaccines so people could eat them rather than getting a shot.

 

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Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.