Reimagining face coverings and PPE
Overview
Question:
How can we re-imagine designs, technologies, accessibility, or strategies for adoption to drive changes in behavior for using face coverings and PPE to help save lives?View Contributions: https://www.pandemicresponsecolab.org/challenges/2020/reimagining-face-coverings-and-ppe
Submit Contributions: https://www.pandemicresponsecolab.org/challenges/2020/reimagining-face-coverings-and-ppe/createProposal
Rules: All entrants must agree to the Challenge rules and Terms of Use
Deadline: Monday, Sep 21, 2020 at 23:59:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Key Issues
Some areas of opportunity to consider are:
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How we could innovate mask design to be disability-accessible.
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How we could influence social behaviors around masks and reduce stigma.
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How we could use new materials to make masks easier to wear while exercising.
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How we could retain the functionality of masks, but without it looking like a mask.
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How we could deal with sensing infection even when someone is asymptomatic.
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How biosensors could be helpful in alerting to contamination.
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How material innovation in masks can be used to remove nanoparticles.
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How we would extend the life of masks by sensing functionality failures.
Schedule
Submission: Now until September 21, 2020
Expert Review: September 21, 2020-October 1, 2020
Review Criteria
Subject matter experts will evaluate the solutions submitted to the challenge to identify possible promising ideas. Sometimes there is one who stands above the rest, and sometimes there are two to three. This is not a typical challenge where there are winners and losers. We are hoping to build a much more inclusive and collaborative platform to encourage others to cross-pollinate ideas and work together.
Challenge Incentives
There may be some novel and promising solutions that will emerge and those will receive the following:
1) Visibility in the form of an announcement by MIT Pandemic Response CoLab on MIT News;
2) A badge for their social media platforms and Pandemic Response CoLab that shows they were selected as a “Most Promising Solution” by experts;
3) 2 45-minute calls with challenge experts.
A community choice solution is one that receives the most votes during a public voting period. They will receive the following:
1) A badge for their social media platforms and Pandemic Response CoLab that shows they were selected as a “Community Choice Solution”.