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Researchers sampling water in the field
Student-led · global health

Putting diagnostics
in your hands.

We are an international, student-led research collaborative using ultra‑low‑cost, accessible innovation to address pressing global health challenges — built on education and community empowerment.

Our mission

Health shouldn't depend on where you were born.

We train student researchers and community partners to screen for neglected tropical diseases, together, at the source — paving the way for new, comprehensive approaches to neglected diseases around the world.

$5.00
Per diagnostic kit for schistosomiasis deployed in the field
5
Continents where our students collaborate
100%
Student-led research & mentorship
What we do

Three ways the work happens

Innovation

Re-imagining diagnostic workflows to raise the floor of what's possible in rural care — dismantling the barriers that keep people from the help they need.

Education

Workshops and mentorship that leave skills behind: local partners and students empowered to carry the work long after we've gone.

Field work

Evidence-driven studies sampled where people live — water, soil, and community — rooted in local realities as the first step toward innovation that holds.

Teaching session at a field school
First-term workshop · screening fundamentals
Field notes

Start at the chalkboard.

Every deployment begins with teaching — size, color, shape, the basics of reading a sample. When partners can run the screening themselves, the diagnostics stay long after we've gone.

Education Diagnostics Community
SCOPE · Ogun State, Nigeria

The people in the field

The team behind SCOPE — Schistosomiasis Control from a One Health Perspective — our schistosomiasis work across Ogun State, Nigeria.

Ifeoluwa George
Ifeoluwa George
Lead field technician
Field microscopy & sample reading
Tope Olubodun
Tope Olubodun
Regulatory & ethics lead · Physician
Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta
Soneye Islamiat
Soneye Islamiat
Schistosomiasis control lead, Ogun State
State Ministry of Health · Mobile care & CHEW coordination
Adebukola Adelakun
Adebukola Adelakun
Postdoctoral researcher · Spatial epidemiology
FUNAAB · Drone mapping & snail-host ecology
Get involved · Contact us

Empower healthy communities with accessible tools.

Students, mentors, and partners welcome. Send us a note and a student coordinator follows up.