Christyn Naa-Aduele Hammond is a Research Associate at the Dipper Lab and a Biomedical Engineering graduate driven by a deep commitment to Paediatric health ...
Christyn Naa-Aduele Hammond is a Research Associate at the Dipper Lab and a Biomedical Engineering graduate driven by a deep commitment to Paediatric health and accessible medical technology. She is driven by the conviction that everyone deserves timely, appropriate care and should never be disadvantaged by the lack of suitable medical tools. Christyn’s journey into biomedical engineering began with an early interest in solving problems and understanding systems. While she grew up in a community where “brilliant students” were expected to pursue medicine, she found herself drawn instead to the intersection of healthcare, design, and analytical thinking. That shift led her to biomedical engineering, where she could combine her love for numbers with her desire to improve lives.
Over the years, Christyn has become especially passionate about medical devices that are tailored to the environments where they are used. She believes that a community should not fall behind simply because the available technologies were designed for conditions far different from their own. This conviction fuels her broader mission: helping build healthcare solutions that are accessible, context-appropriate, and sustainable for resource-limited settings. Her research interests include data analysis, AI, and machine learning, fields she finds both exciting and transformative for the future of medicine. Even though few women traditionally pursue this area, Christyn embraces it with enthusiasm. She sees technology, especially AI, as one of the most powerful tools for improving healthcare delivery. This philosophy reflects strongly in her current project at Dipper Lab, where she is helping develop an AI-based system to estimate the height and weight of Ghanaian children from images. The goal is to support emergency clinical decision-making when accurate measurements are urgently needed. To Christyn, this project represents exactly the kind of meaningful, context-driven innovation that can change the trajectory of healthcare in settings like Ghana. To her, medical devices, both hardware and software, are the most important resources for sustaining human life. Choosing to work in this field is her way of choosing impact. Every part of her journey, from research to mentorship, reflects a long-term vision of making healthcare better and more equitable for everyone, everywhere.
