Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies
The Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies (Rice360), a multi-disciplinary institute at Rice University, is a leader in global health technology education, research, and implementation, with a distinctive focus on problem-based learning. Rice360 develops highly effective, low-cost healthcare solutions that address critical needs in underserved communities and educates future leaders to continue innovating and implementing solutions.
Rice360 offers several award-winning experiential education programs, including a minor in Global Health Technologies, international internships, international post-baccalaureate fellowships, and a graduate certificate program. Program participants engage directly in the design, fabrication, evaluation, deployment, and scale of innovative new technologies. Moreover, Rice360 brings the international innovation and global health community to Rice, through their annually hosted global health technologies seminar series, International Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition and Innovation for Healthcare Conference.
Rice360 collaborates closely with partners in settings with limited medical resources or infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries and the US. Rice360 is the lead institution for the Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) alliance, working with African governments to transform hospital newborn care by installing a bundle of rugged devices, educating clinicians to use devices and biomedical engineers to maintain them, and implementing locally owned data dashboards to drive uptake and quality. Rice360 co-founded the Center for Innovation and Translation of Point-of-Care Technologies for Expanded Cancer Care Access (CITEC), an NIH-funded collaboration of bioengineers, oncologists, and international global health partners that unites a global community of investigators to develop and effectively disseminate point-of-care technologies for the detection and treatment of cancer. Rice360 is increasing its scope by engaging more faculty, graduate students, and partners to identify health equity gaps and design and translate affordable, quality solutions to improve health for women and children in underserved rural and urban Texas and US communities.
Rice360 collaborators can be found within Rice University, the Texas Medical Center, and educational and medical institutions in the US and around the world. Rice360 has staff located in the US, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Ethiopia who support education and research partnerships.
Website: https://rice360.rice.edu/
Sources:
Yvette Mirabal, Rice360 Executive Director
Emily Bull, Rice360 Director of Development
Last Updated: March 2026