Barbara Smith joined Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering as an assistant faculty in January 2015. The Smith group specializes in developing technologies for the minimally-invasive detection of diseases and illnesses, relevant towards women’s health, mental illness, and continued wellbeing. Her research is founded in the tenants of global health, where creating affordable and available diagnostics requires low cost and high quality.

Smith’s innovative approaches are aimed towards driving (inter)national exposure and product translation; connecting ASU students to relevant problems that exist both in our back yards and/or throughout the far-reaching areas of the world.