An App for Safer Pregnancies
As first-year students participating in Rutgers University–New Brunswick’s Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA), Fauzan Amjad, Scott Rubin, Sanjana Sure, and Max Handler (left to right) questioned why Black infants die at twice the rate of white infants nationwide and how they might address the health disparity. Now rising juniors, the students developed BabySafe Health, an app that provides pregnant women with an all-in-one platform that includes a symptom tracker, doctor’s office finder, and proprietary machine-learning algorithm providing data-informed insights on potential health consequences during their pregnancy. Last fall, the BabySafe Health team won first place in the Johnson & Johnson and Amazon Web Services Black Tech Health Hackathon.