2025 Global Development Research Symposium
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The Global Development Research Symposium showcases student creativity, achievement and research from diverse disciplines of study across Stanford University. The symposium will feature the work of scholars, including those who have received funding from the King Center over the last year.
The 2025 symposium will highlight posters by Stanford undergraduates, predoctoral fellows, graduate student researchers, as well as postdoctoral fellows. Manu Prakash, an associate professor of bioengineering and faculty lead of the Prakash Lab, will present the 2025 keynote talk, "Scaling Frugal Science: Tackling Societal Challenges With Curiosity, Openness & a Bit of Play". Prakash will explore the importance of academic curiosity and the potential for using simple materials and concepts to solve complex societal challenges.
Additional funding for this event is provided by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE).
Schedule:
12:00 PM-12:45 PM: Keynote talk by Associate Professor of Bioengineering Manu Prakash
1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Poster presentations
About the Keynote Speaker:
Manu Prakash, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development
Manu Prakash is an associate professor of bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Medicine, and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. At Stanford, Prakash is also a member of the core leadership team of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and a board member of the Jasper Ridge Reserve.
In his research, Prakash takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how computation is embodied in biological matter. Broadly, he invents new tools for studying non-model organisms with significant focus on life in the ocean. In 2014, his lab introduced Foldscope, a powerful, paper microscope which was distributed to countries across the world. His work has been honored by various awards and fellowships including the Harvard Society of Fellows, the Pew Foundation, the MIT Ideas Sustainability Prize, and the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award. He holds an MS and a PhD in applied physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Posters:
Scholar | Poster Title | Advisor/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Cody Abbey | Associations of School Bullying With Students’ Mental Health and Academic Outcomes: A Quantitative Study in Rural China | Huan Wang |
| Khusbu Adhikari | Machine Learning Analysis of Mortality Risk Associated With Clinical Signs of Illness in Young Infants Using Data From Africa and Asia | Gary Darmstadt |
| Jonathan Altamirano | Mental Health, Gender-based Violence, and HIV Medication Adherence among AGYW in Western Kenya: A Longitudinal Cohort Study | Michael Baiocchi |
| Amogh Bandekar | The Impacts of Informal Lead Recycling on Fetal Deaths in India | Stephen Luby and Jenna Forsyth |
| Fabian Carchi | Infrastructure Development in Mexico: The Case of Fibra-E Trusts (2016–2024) | David Grusky |
| Chloe Chan | Sand, Sustainability and Gender: Intersections in Health, Empowerment, and Ecological Politics Across Academic and Public Literature | Jean Baptiste-Jouffray |
| Shirley Cheng | Infrastructure and Economic Potential: The Developmental Impact of High-Speed Rail in China | John Taylor |
| Jane Cook | Discovery of New Human Gut Microbes Across Africa | Ami Bhatt |
| Onja Davidson Raoelison | Wildfires and Human Health: Uncovering Infectious Disease Risks | Jason Andrews |
| Kidanewold Demesie | Impact of Climate Exposure and Economic Variables on Democratic Satisfaction: A Linear Regression Analysis on Afrobarometer Data | Amanda Helen Kennard |
| Chenyu Deng | Unsettling/-ed Mothers: Maternity and Migration in the Writings of Julia Wong Kcomt | Regina Pieck |
| Khushmita Dhabhai | Mitigating Conflict and Polarization | Saumitra Jha |
| Melissa Franco-Galicia | A Cancer Modeling Framework With Healthcare System Constraints in Low-to-Middle Income Countries | Fernando Alarid-Escudero |
| Koree French | Simulating the Consequences of Rift Valley Fever Virus (Rvfv) Transmission via Raw Milk Consumption in Kenya | Desiree LaBeaud |
| Vansh Gadhia | Stroke Epidemiology and Biomarker Determinants To Advance Equitable Care in Kenyan Populations | Christine Ngaruiya |
| Rwaida Gharib | Unstuck: Understanding the Policy Roadblocks for Climate Induced Migration | Chris Field and Janet Martinez |
| Michelle Ha | Sisal / Henequén: Agave Fiber Classification & Decortication in Yucatán, México | Shane Denson |
| Jordon Horton | Quantifying the Time Burden of Water Management by Female Heads of Households in Eastern Africa | Jenna Davis |
| Japnoor Kaur | A Criteria-Based Approach to Improve Research Practices in Neonatal Emollient Therapy | Gary Darmstadt |
| Dayeong Kim | When Giant Donors Step Back: A Network Analysis of Global Foreign Aid | Olli Vigren |
| Julieta Lamm-Perez | Socio-Environmental Factors Influencing Dengue Transmission in Guatemala | Caroline Glidden |
| Eva Lestant | Selling (Together): Fostering Economies of Scale Through Retail Cooperatives | Melanie Morten |
| Peter Lee | Environmental Conservation Backlash: Brazilian Anti-Deforestation Law Enforcement and Voting | Jens Hainmueller and Jonathan Rodden |
| Tamar Matiashvili | Talent, Trust and Health: The Effects of the First Female Physicians | Ran Abramitzky |
| Aadhityaa Mohanavelu | Developing a Consistent Water Equity Metric for Developing Countries | Khalid Osman |
| Luca Moreno Louzada | When Water Runs Red: Gold Mining and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Amazon | Matthew Gentzkow |
| Arsene Nessono Woumo Koskreo | Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Global South | Marshall Burke |
| Oluchukwu Obinegbo | Leaving No One Behind: Rethinking Energy Poverty Assessment in SSA | Khalid Osman and Sally Benson |
| Quinn Mitsuko Parker | Gendered Impacts of Global Change in Small-Scale Fisheries: Comparisons in Equity and Wellbeing Across Southern Madagascar | Larry Crowder |
| Sofia Pesantez | Risk Factors Associated With Stillbirth in a Case-Control Study in Faridpur, Bangladesh, 2022–2023 | Ashley Styczynski |
| Daniel Praburaj | Political Hate Speech, Where and Why?: Evidence from Elections in India | Soledad Artiz Prillaman |
| Poornima Rajeshwar | Living on the Threshold: Poverty, Temporality, and Economic Life in India | Thomas Blom Hansen |
| Christian Robles-Baez | The Making of an Improbable Global Market | Zephyr Frank and Mark Granovetter |
| Merry Seng Maran and Aurora Feng | Refugee Entrepreneurs Integration & Opportunity Recognition: Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment in Uganda | Charles Eesley, Zahra Hejrat, and Medhanie Gaim |
| Aatika Singh | Development, Desecration & Dalits, C. 1980s-2024—What Is the Relationship of Ambedkar Statuary to Public Land? | Usha Iyer |
| Hansen Tao | Climate Driven Arbovirus Epidemiology | Alessandro Zulli |
| Ishita Verma | Towards Sustainable Cleft Care: A Continuity Strategy For Global Health Missions | Nicole Martinez-Martin |
| Jinwen Wu | Do Intrinsic Motives Matter in Authoritarianism?—Evidence From Chinese Mayors | Yiqing Xu |
| Yixuan Catherine Xu | Aversion Towards Facial Expression Recognition AI: Variation Across the US and Singapore | Srishti Goel and Maria Gendron |
| Max Yang | Reconstructing Geographic Patterns of Tuberculosis Spread in Latin America | Jason Andrews |
| Lauren Yu | Assessing Bias of Large Language Models in Assisting with Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Ivana Maric |
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