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Bioengineering has the power to improve health globally by engineering diagnostic, treatment and disease monitoring platforms that function in diverse settings, including
resource-constrained contexts. In this Viewpoint, the authors highlight the pressing challenges that need to be addressed to make the field more equitable and to enable bioengineered
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Audrey K. Bowden * London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Noah Fongwen * Nature Africa, Lagos, Nigeria Akinlabi K. Jimoh Authors
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Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests
include biomedical optics (particularly optical coherence tomography and near-infrared spectroscopy), microfluidics and point-of-care diagnostics. NOAH FONGWEN is a global health expert with
more than 10 years of experience in implementation science and health policy research in both high- and low-income settings. He is a fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and lead for diagnostics access at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. AKINLABI K JIMOH is a leader in promoting science and public health in his native Nigeria
and across the African continent. He is the Chief Editor of _Nature Africa_ and an anglophone coordinator (2009–2013) for the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), Science
Journalism Cooperation project (SjCOOP). A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT (1999/2000) and Bell Fellow in Population and Development Studies at Harvard School of Public Health
(1995/1996), he founded the Development Communications (DevComs) Network, a media development organization in science and public health journalism based in Lagos. CORRESPONDING AUTHORS
Correspondence to Audrey K. Bowden, Noah Fongwen or Akinlabi K. Jimoh. ETHICS DECLARATIONS COMPETING INTERESTS The authors declare no competing interests. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLISHER’S
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