Health

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.

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.

On NPR, Affiliated Researcher Jenna Forsyth details her work on reducing lead, which resulted in a dramatic drop in blood lead levels in Bangladesh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On NPR Morning Edition, Faculty Affiliate Desiree LaBeaud briefly talks about how climate change is extending mosquito breeding seasons.

Researchers are investigating the factors that impact adolescent girls’ adherence to HIV treatments in Kenya, with funding from the King Center for a follow-up study.

Faculty Affiliate Karen Eggleston finds that China’s urban-rural integration policy for social health insurance significantly improved the life satisfaction of rural residents.