Doc-in-a-Box Project

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Doc-in-a-Box/Rx Box Viewing at CFR

Host: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
June 14, 2006

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Two years ago, Laurie Garrett came up with a conceptual framework for a project (Doc-in-a-Box) that endeavored to retrofit shipping containers into health clinics that could be delivered to under-served communities around the world. Students and faculty from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently created a prototype (Rx Box), which will be on display in front of the Council.

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