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Inside the race to prepare cities for extreme heat
King Center Faculty Affiliates and other Stanford researchers are working to help cities adapt to extreme weather and keep people and buildings cool during severe heat waves.
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Educational program based on ‘unity in diversity’ builds bridges across social divides, study finds
An intensive curriculum developed by Faculty Affiliate Prashant Loyalka and collaborators helps young people develop the capacity to unite across differences.
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New Stanford Impact Labs (SIL) investments back research teams tackling pressing challenges
Affiliates studying AI-enabled women's health care and the relationship between crop insurance and climate resilience were awarded funding by SIL.
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Health's biggest breakthroughs are happening at the local level
Stanford King Center scholars are tackling issues ranging from air pollution and antibiotic resistance to digital mental health services, harnessing the use of new health technologies.
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Stanford King Center on Global Development hosts 2026 BREAD Conference on Development Economics
The discussions tackled urgent questions from migration to gender norms to artificial intelligence in development.
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Aiming to improve the aquaculture industry in Kenya
King Center scholar Fridah Nyakundi has published a new paper describing the risks and associated market challenges facing tilapia farmers in Kenya and showing why the country’s growing aquaculture sector needs risk- and system-specific policy support.
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HERI-Kenya is turning food waste into climate solution
Featured on Citizen TV Kenya, HERI-Kenya's black soldier fly farm is cutting down on food waste and greenhouse gas emissions while strengthening food security, sanitation, and climate resilience for the surrounding community.
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New roads: expressways for disease?
New study by Erin Mordecai links road development to rise in dengue in the Peruvian Amazon
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Rosenkranz Prize winner Nathan Lo develops new methods to tackle a neglected global infectious disease
Lo is tackling a tropical disease most people have never heard of—yet it infects 300–600 million people worldwide.
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The future of global development: 10 takeaways for investors, philanthropists, and policymakers
Development is entering a new era—one defined by strategic partnerships, accountability, and growing competition to shape the future of emerging economies.
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Go behind the science with Rodolfo Dirzo
The Stanford ecologist traces quiet shifts in the natural world, and how they circle back to human health.
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A low-cost, self-driving microscope could speed up infection diagnostics
Faculty Affiliate Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.
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New research shows path to affordable water in fast-growing cities
By 2050, up to half the world’s urban population will face water scarcity. In a study co-authored by Faculty Affiliate Rosamond Naylor, a new model of water supply, demand, and policies in a drought-prone city of 7 million in India shows how policies could prevent the poor from bearing the heaviest burden.
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AI platform maps disease risk from space
Led by Faculty Affiliate Giulio De Leo, Stanford scientists in Senegal hunting for schistosomiasis—a parasitic disease infecting 250 million people worldwide—used AI to transform local fieldwork into satellite-powered risk analysis.
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Affordable microscope speeds up malaria diagnosis with AI
In order to make malaria diagnosis faster, more accurate, and more accessible, researchers in Manu Prakash's lab have developed a robotic device, called Octopi, that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood smears.
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Researchers work to outrun the risk of ‘river fever’
In Senegal, Faculty Affiliates Giulio De Leo and Rosamond Naylor are tackling schistosomiasis in rice paddies, using fish to cut disease transmission while boosting food security and local economies.
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Launching AI-driven initiatives to combat labor trafficking in Brazil
The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab, in partnership with Brazil’s Federal Labor Prosecution Office (FLPO), is developing Chain-Link, a new data-driven technical tool to map exploitative supply chains.
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Training brick manufacturers to reduce emissions in Bangladesh
King Center-supported research trained brick kiln owners and operators in cleaner practices, which reduced coal burning and improved air quality in Bangladesh.
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How to increase impact in a time of decreasing aid
Experts call for more focused funding at King Center event on the future of aid.
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Global development conference highlights research by postdocs
Stanford’s only conference for postdoctoral fellows in global development featured wide-ranging international research on September 19.
