Health
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Scientists turn to wastewater to track hidden HIV outbreaks
The King Center supports the launch of a research initiative to pioneer a low-cost, unobtrusive approach to disease surveillance in South Africa.
May 20, 2025
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Improving practices at Bangladesh’s brick kilns: A win-win for business and the environment
In VoxDev, new evidence from Bangladesh reveals aligning business owners' profit motives with environmental and health goals can effectively reduce the pollution from brick kilns.
May 12, 2025
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Students break down big ideas in inaugural Three Minute Thesis Competition
Graduate funding recipient Tamri Matiashvili took home second place and a $3,000 prize with her presentation, “Talent, Trust, and Health: How Women Changed Medicine.”
April 23, 2025
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From sewer to solution: Stanford engineers reinvent wastewater purification to unlock valuable resources
An interdisciplinary team, co-led by William Tarpeh, is developing a way to make wastewater drinkable while also recovering valuable products, like fertilizer components.
April 21, 2025
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Undergrads tackle global issues through academic year fellowships
Students research malaria, dengue, and the sand mining industry.
April 02, 2025
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Stanford researchers reimagine the future of food
Faculty affiliates are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, spanning topics including sustainable food systems, health equity, and culture.
March 14, 2025
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Researchers make disturbing finding about side effects from coal plants: 'Incredibly important'
Pollution from coal power stations has reduced yields of Indian rice and wheat crops – two of the most vital crops to the world's second-most populous country – by over 10%.
February 27, 2025
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Meet Stephen Luby, winner of Stanford’s highest teaching award
Professor Luby has spent decades tackling public health challenges in low-income countries, from reducing lead in turmeric to improving brick kiln efficiency in Bangladesh.
February 18, 2025
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Blue food project taps the ocean’s potential to feed the world
A collaboration with Indonesian organizations, co-led by David Cohen, aims to capitalize on aquatic food sources to improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods.
February 04, 2025
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What’s the deal with microplastics, the material that ‘never goes away’?
Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud speaks to the health effects of microplastics and steps individuals can take to reduce exposure.
January 29, 2025
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Climate change plays a role in global rise of dengue fever
Faculty Affiliate Erin Mordecai's study suggests that climate change has likely played a significant role in the expansion of dengue fever from 1995 to 2014.
November 23, 2024
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Climate change is driving the rise in dengue cases
Faculty Affiliate Erin Mordecai has found at least 257 million people now live in places where climate warming could cause dengue incidence to double in the next 25 years.
November 20, 2024
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Health experts push for the elimination of a ‘remarkably harmful toxin’
The King Center's lead initiative has spent years examining the widespread presence of lead in low-income countries, including in some commonly consumed products.
November 05, 2024
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Michele Barry on elevating women leaders in climate and health
Faculty Affiliate Michele Barry says increasing women’s participation in discussions about these topics is key to finding solutions that will benefit a broad range of people.
October 10, 2024
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You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery
On NPR, Affiliated Researcher Jenna Forsyth details her work on reducing lead, which resulted in a dramatic drop in blood lead levels in Bangladesh.
September 23, 2024
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Pricing health insurance in India
Faculty Affiliate Alessandra Voena co-authored an article in VoxDev on how governments should set premiums for health insurance, given the high costs of raising revenue.
September 12, 2024
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Lower-carbon concrete floors could pave the way to a health solution
Concrete floors are easily cleaned of disease-carrying pathogens, but they come at a high environmental cost. A lower-carbon flooring mix could provide a solution.
September 04, 2024
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Research Fellow Besindone Dumi-Leslie
Dumi-Leslie worked with former Faculty Director Pascaline Dupas on projects encompassing health, gender, and institutions, among others.
August 23, 2024
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Forecasting climate’s impact on a debilitating disease
Faculty Affiliates Giulio De Leo and Erin Mordecai developed models that can predict how the risk of parasitic disease schistosomiasis will shift in response to climate change.
August 05, 2024
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Connecting human health with nature
The King Center funded the Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, hosted by a new program pursuing win-win ecological solutions for health and the environment.
July 24, 2024