Health

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.”

An interdisciplinary team, co-led by William Tarpeh, is developing a way to make wastewater drinkable while also recovering valuable products, like fertilizer components.

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.

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%.

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.

A collaboration with Indonesian organizations, co-led by David Cohen, aims to capitalize on aquatic food sources to improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods.

Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud speaks to the health effects of microplastics and steps individuals can take to reduce exposure.

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.

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.

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.