Table 1 Course structure: the three components of the course with examples of topics covered

1

Address a community/family/individual health need

-Road safety

-Disability

-Safety in the home

-Exercise at work

-Food technology

-Monitoring chronic disease

-Oxygen delivery

-Waste disposal

-Sanitation

-eHealthcare/telemedicine

-Prevention of spread of COVID-19 and infection

-Powering medical devices in low-resource settings

2

Research a historical engineering innovation that changed public health

-Clean water and sewage networks

-Hospital waste management

-Waste collection and recycling

-Computer tomography (CT)

-Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

-Steam power

-Clean energy sources

-Electricity

-Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

3

Innovate for an unmet health need with technology of the future

-Paraplegia: exoskeleton, virtual reality, nerve/muscle stimulation

-Oxygen extraction from the sea

-GPS for the blind

-Home ECG

-Home prescription dispenser

-Ultrasonic migraine detector

-Gas leak sensor

-CO₂ absorption through biotechnology

-P53 targeted chemotherapy

-Anaesthesia through brain inhibition

-Remote robotic surgery