Mission
3D4MD is a social enterprise that makes award-winning high-fidelity healthcare and education solutions to impact over 1 billion lives at home, abroad, and in space.
Our Achievements
Aid Supplies On Demand
Over 307 million people need humanitarian assistance. 3D4MD’s growing digital catalog addresses the supply needs of humanitarian aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, the World Health Organization, Red Cross, and United Nations programmes.
Medical Care for Space Missions
Cost and storage constraints severely limit the medical care capabilities of space missions. 3D4MD made lower cost, high quality 3D printable designs of medical resources to treat an ill or injured astronaut on-site during a long space mission.
Solar Powered, Mobile 3D Printers
3 billion people do not have access to the Internet and 675 million people lack access to electricity. 3D4MD designed and tested a solar-powered, plug-and-play, and ultra-portable 3D printing system to manufacture medical supplies in offline, offgrid regions.
Customized Solutions On Demand
3.45 billion people lives in rural areas where finding specialized equipment and items can be impossible. 3D4MD uses cellphone photos to design customized, 3D printable devices on demand for patients in remote communities.
Accessible Assistive Devices
Over 1 billion people have a disability and many of them cannot obtain assistive devices that allow them to participate fully in everyday life. 3D4MD designed award-winning, 3D printable assistive devices to save time and money for people with disabilities.
Global Surgery Training Solutions
5 billion people lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care. 3D4MD has created and tested award-winning simulators to advance surgical education and care in the most challenging places to those who need it the most.
How We’re Different
Leadership
3D4MD is a leader in 3D printing in austere environments and holds the distinction of 3D printing the first medical supplies in space and at the Mars Desert Research Station.
Data-Driven
3DM4D monitors and reports our quantitative and qualitative outcomes in peer-reviewed publications to demonstrate that 3D printing solutions are better than existing alternatives.
Local Empowerment
3D4MD co-creates and implements innovative, locally-led, and locally owned life-saving and life-changing solutions that empower systems-level change for vulnerable populations.
Impartial
3D4MD is committed to bringing quality healthcare and education solutions to people regardless of their nationality, race, gender, identity, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
Collaboration
In partnership with Medical Makers, 3D4MD crowdsources life-changing solutions to minimize development time and costs and maximize our social impact.
Eco-Friendly
3D4MD 3D prints with dishwasher-compatible filament so education supplies can be washed and re-used and makes single-use training items out of biorenewable plastic.
User-Centered
3D4MD uses open-filament and user-friendly 3D printers and designs solutions that print support-free and are ready to use right out of the 3D printer.
Empowerment
3D4MD is a racialized woman-founded humanitarian social enterprise that uses 3D printing to directly benefit girls and women by reducing inequities and strengthening their rights.
