Health

The Stanford ecologist traces quiet shifts in the natural world, and how they circle back to human health.

Faculty Affiliate Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

King Center-supported research trained brick kiln owners and operators in cleaner practices, which reduced coal burning and improved air quality in Bangladesh.

At UNGA 80, Jenna Forsyth spoke about the King Center’s lead initiative work at a Devex Impact House panel.

The HIV Wastewater Epidemiology in South Africa Initiative is partnering with the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) to expand wastewater surveillance in rural areas.

Faculty Affiliates Erin Mordecai and Desiree LaBeaud have been tracking mosquito species and the diseases they transmit in Costa Rica and Africa.

Predoctoral Research Fellow Suhi Hanif and Faculty Affiliate Jade Benjamin-Chung reveal the devastating impact of floods on prenatal depression in Bangladesh.

Erin Mordecai is studying how climate change is affecting the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases, which will help predict future outbreaks.

Faculty Affiliate Erin Mordecai and her co-authors find that small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species.

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.

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.”