Health in Your Hands is run by students, engineers, and clinicians-in-training who build diagnostics with the communities that use them.
Will is a medical student and researcher studying the neuroscience of cancer therapeutics at MD Anderson, with prior work spanning neonatology, toxicology, and environmental health. He believes discovery should be shared — at the microscope, through art, and with the communities a technology is built for.
Simon is a medical student at McGovern and a board member of Texas Physicians for Social Responsibility, with past work on cancer research programs and global COVID-19 policy tracking. He works from the conviction that clinicians belong in the design of the systems they practice in.
Caroline is a medical student with an MPH who has spent years launching community-led development projects across Latin America and studying traditional birth attendants in rural Tanzania. She builds on the belief that communities already know their problems — what they need are the right tools.
Rakesh brings clinical research and healthcare strategy consulting, from oncology market forecasting at ZS Associates to cardiovascular outcomes research at UTHealth. He focuses on what it actually takes to get a reliable, affordable test into a rural clinic and keep it there.
Jon is a chemical and systems engineer with 8+ years scaling new technologies, from semiconductor process transfer to solar-powered ROVs and controlled-environment agriculture. He treats manufacturability as a health equity problem: a device that can't be made cheaply and repeatedly can't reach anyone.
Phillip is a healthcare administration graduate whose experience spans patient care as a medical assistant and organizing as a campaign manager. He keeps the work moving on the ground, where good intentions turn into schedules, logistics, and delivered results.
Cristina is a medical student researching the socioeconomic barriers to care she first studied in Brazil, and now the epidemiology of contraception and STDs. She wants the story of this work told plainly, so the people it serves can see themselves in it.
Madison is a medical student who has led undergraduate researchers in a neurobiology lab, supported families in pediatric emergency settings, and connected people experiencing homelessness to food and care. She builds programs meant to outlast the visit that started them.
