The Origin of JustMilk 

The product design team came together in 2008 at the International Development Design Summit (IDDS), with the initial focus of designing the drug delivery device. By combining the teammates’ diverse backgrounds and gaining insight from people living in HIV affected nations, the group developed a solution that is not only a potentially effective, but also culturally appropriate.

 

 

Founding JustMilk Members and IDDS Product Design Team:

- Tombo Banda, BS, Mechanical Engineer, Prime Engineering, Malawi

- Geoff Galgon, Mathematics PhD Student, UC Irvine, CA

- Stephen Gerrard, Chemical Engineering PhD Student, Cambridge University, UK

- Ryan Hubbard, BS, Program Associate, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, USA

- Elizabeth Kneen, BS, MS, Mechanical Engineer, Continuum, USA

- David Sokal MD, Scientist, Behavioral and Biomedical Research, Family Health International, USA

 

 

The Evolution of the JustMilk Team

This project is an open collaboration among several organizations to achieve prototype development and testing.  The JustMilk effort now includes the following researchers:

 

	- David Sokal, MD, Scientist II, Project Leader - Shelly Fischer, BS, Clinical Laboratory Specialist, Project Manager - David Jenkins, PhD, Scientist, Associate II, Device Optimization and Materials Science - Catherine Hart, AAS, Research Associate II, User Acceptability
	- Stephen Gerrard, Chemical Engineering Ph.D Student - Prof. Nigel Slater, Head of the BioScience Research Group for the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
	- Sandra Urdaneta Hartmann, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor OB/GYN and Microbiology and Immunology - Fred C. Krebs, PhD, Associate Professor Microbiology and Immunology - Brian Wigdahl, PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology and Immunology
	- Kiersten Israel-Ballard, PhD, Senior Program Officer Maternal and Child Health/Nutrition Global Program - Margaret Waithaka, Kenya Principal Investigator, Senior Program Officer