team was awarded the “Rising Star in Global Health” by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) for developing a simple, non-invasive and cost-effective wristband with Global Systems for Mobile (GSM) connectivity to monitor vital signs of pregnant women and automatically transfer data to health providers. The Maternal Wristband will revolutionizes vital signs monitoring by being able to monitor pregnant women for key causes of mortality during pregnancy, such as preeclampsia, excessive blood loss and gestational diabetes. Instead of traveling to health providers or laboratories, women can wear this wristband to monitor their health data which would be automatically sent to health providers using mobile connectivity/ Short Message Service (SMS). The device can also be used for monitoring non-communicable diseases such as, diabetes, hypertension and anemia in the general population.