Eliza is fueled by a desire to improve lives and the opportunity that innovation presents.

Eliza Steinberg is a second-year masters student and interdisciplinary researcher pursuing a dual degree in design science and advanced medical product engineering and development at UM-Ann Arbor. Eliza specializes in human-centered design for global health, and her goal is to improve women’s health outcomes through scientific principles and human-centered approaches. Eliza is passionate about understanding how individuals’ experiences, as well as various socio-cultural factors, affect their interactions with a problem and its solution space. Eliza believes that designing with these principles at the forefront of her work creates meaningful and sustainable solutions.

On a CEW+ Fellowship, Eliza is investigating the acceptability and feasibility of a device designed to support healthcare professionals in Ghana through accurate measurement of uterine blood loss, aiming to improve the timely diagnosis and management of postpartum hemorrhage. She collaborates with researchers from the University of Michigan and Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. Through her work, she intends to understand patients’ and providers’ perspectives on the device, as well as general practices around postpartum and obstetric care. These findings will inform design interactions and future implementation strategies for the project.

Eliza has worked in global health design throughout her undergraduate years as an active member in Project Making Examinations Safe and Accessible, an initiative to increase access to cervical cancer screening, and as a participant in the Global Health Design Initiative Academic Program. Additionally, during her postbaccalaureate year at Duke’s Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, she supported the development and implementation of the Pocket Colposcope. She is fueled by a desire to improve lives and the opportunity that innovation presents.

CEW+ applauds Eliza for her commitment to women’s health and names her a Menakka and Essel Bailey Graduate Fellowship Fellow.