The PanFab (Pandemic Fabrication) team was established by a group of Ph.D. and M.D. students from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) to meet the urgent needs for medical supplies and equipment arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is focused initially on the Greater Boston area but anyone is free to join and use its work products. We aim to continue this even after the immediate COVID-19 outbreak has passed so that key lessons can be learned and applied to future crises.
It may interest you to know that none of us came into this project with expertise in pandemic response. We spent our “pre-pandemic” lives building skills and experience towards our own personal and professional goals, whether in 3D printing, materials, mechanical engineering, or otherwise. However, in the face of crisis, we realized we needed to find some way to use these skills in a completely different context. We all felt a need to answer this call for different reasons.
Learn more at PanFab.org and in this article. Please contact us to ask questions or get involved at panfabteam@gmail.com.
