March 17th, 2021
Please be aware that as of March 17th, 2021, the Shield the Bay project has wrapped up.
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Shield the Bay

shieldthebay2020 [at] gmail [dot] com

About Us

Shield the Bay designs and produces face shields for the healthcare and emergency response workers who serve vulnerable populations in the SF Bay Area. We provide desirable products that scale through standardization.

Sustained demand for various PPE will persist through mid 2020, roughly doubling as traditional health services are restored. In this environment, our goal is to catalyze a new marketplace, engaging various small local businesses in manufacturing our proven product design and connecting them with the procurement arms of healthcare systems. We will build lasting community resilience by helping Bay Area health systems to safely serve communities most in need while establishing an alternative means of producing high-quality PPE that supports local businesses.

We are a collaborative with deep professional expertise in healthcare, industrial and user-centered design, and health equity: private sector design-manufacturing partners COSMO and Newman Design; scientists, faculty and students from UC Berkeley’s Colleges of Chemistry, Public Health, and Engineering; and infection control and system logistics leadership at Bay Area county emergency response systems.

You can find out more and/or help support us towards our goal at this gofundme.

A huge huge thank you to all of our friends and family who have supported us towards this goal.

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Shield the Bay aims to bring scalable, human-centered design to PPE in the Bay Area.