MamaSafe
Building maternal-health technology with both sides of the problem in mind.
Product Design
Medical Domain Expertise
Product Refinement
Medical/Clinical Input
healthtech team
Maternal healthcare decisions don't happen in isolation.
In maternal care, seemingly simple decisions can depend on clinical context, medication safety, patient history, timing, and access to reliable information.
We wanted to explore how technology could help make these decisions safer and more accessible, particularly in settings where healthcare resources can be limited.
As a medical student working on the product, I was able to contribute not only from an engineering perspective, but from an understanding of how these problems appear within healthcare itself. That shaped the way we approached the product from the beginning.
Designing the product with both the system and the patient in mind.
I contributed to building MamaSafe's frontend while also helping refine the product idea, user experience, and feature direction. My medical background became part of the product-development process.
It helped us question assumptions, identify clinically important details, and make product decisions that might not be obvious from the interface alone.
The result was a healthtech product where the technology wasn't designed independently of the healthcare problem. The clinical context helped shape the technology.
The hardest decisions were the ones users couldn't see.
Building MamaSafe wasn't only about making the interface clear. Some of the most important decisions happened beneath the surface: determining what information mattered, how clinical concepts should be represented, what the system should ask or surface, and where technical choices could affect the quality of the healthcare experience.
My cross-domain perspective allowed me to contribute to those decisions from both sides. I could think about what is technically possible, and simultaneously what actually makes sense in a clinical context.
That intersection became one of my biggest contributions to the product.
MamaSafe showed me the power of being able to speak two languages: technology and healthcare.
I contributed to turning the product idea into a working frontend while helping the team refine the experience through a medical lens. The project ultimately went beyond a prototype exercise and became a recognised healthtech solution, winning the Harvard Chan Global Health Hackathon 2026.
The takeaway
The strongest healthcare technology isn't created by adding technology to healthcare. It is created when technology is shaped by a deep understanding of the clinical reality it serves.