Innovations in Methods and Data
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William Tarpeh taps the potential of polluted water
Faculty Affiliate William Tarpeh takes a creative approach to extracting needed resources such as ammonia from wastewater streams.
October 23, 2024
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Can social media be harnessed to bolster electoral accountability?
In VoxDev, Affiliated Researcher José Ramón Enríquez argues that digital campaigns that target a larger share of the electorate can raise the effectiveness of these campaigns.
October 21, 2024
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What drives Susan Athey
The economist weighs in on incremental innovation, data-driven impact, and how economics is evolving to include a healthy dose of engineering.
September 03, 2024
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Do short-term contracts limit investments in training workers?
In rural Burundi, Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Swanson investigates why employers under-invest in training their employees in general skills.
June 28, 2024
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Research Fellow Shakil Ayan
Ayan shares his thoughts on his fellowship experience, and the work he's been doing with King Center affiliates on human trafficking and gender discrimination.
June 12, 2024
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The future of cardiovascular treatments across the world
Ami Bhatt speaks on the Transforming Healthcare podcast about the future of patient monitoring, and how LMICs can play a part in developing the technologies of the future.
March 27, 2024
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Battling the coronavirus ‘infodemic’ among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria
As featured in Nature Human Behaviour, Faculty Affiliate Susan Athey is investigating low-cost scalable interventions to improve the quality of information circulating online.
March 18, 2024
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Global determinants of education reform
Faculty Affiliate Patricia Bromley speaks on a FreshEd podcast about the World Education Reform Database she co-developed.
February 18, 2024
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Study reveals significant discrepancies in common poverty measurement approaches
A study co-authored by Faculty Affiliates Eric Lambin and Jenna Davis found almost no agreement among four widely used poverty measurement approaches.
February 05, 2024
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An interview with Susan Athey, Founding Director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford
A Medium audio interview with Faculty Affiliate Susan Athey describes how her lab uses technology and social science to improve the effectiveness of social sector organizations.
January 11, 2024
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Studying state expansion in sub-Saharan Africa
Jamie Hintson looks closely at public infrastructure projects in dozens of countries as a part of his King Center Graduate Student Research Funding.
October 17, 2023
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King Center supports undergraduate student research in infectious disease lab
Current and former students share their experience studying mosquito-borne viruses in the lab of Professor A. Desiree LaBeaud.
September 25, 2023
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Students devote their summer to combating human trafficking in Brazil
King Center undergraduate research assistant Thay Graciano spent her summer in Brazil with faculty members and researchers of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab.
September 18, 2023
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Stanford researchers investigate human trafficking alongside Brazilian partners in the Amazon rainforest
Members of a King Center initiative investigate possible trafficking sites in Brazil while working to expand an AI database designed to find illegal camps more efficiently.
September 18, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Juan Felipe Riaño
Riaño discusses his research in political economy, namely bureaucratic nepotism and the politics of state capacity building.
June 20, 2023
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Stanford research ushers in a ‘new frontier’ in tackling global poverty
In the first real-world test of a tool pioneered at Stanford to better evaluate anti-poverty policies, a new study shows the economic benefits of expanding electricity access.
November 16, 2022
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Detecting modern-day slavery from the sky
Using AI to analyze satellite images, researchers say it’s possible to spot illegal deforestation and forced labor in the Amazon rainforest.
August 26, 2022
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How satellites and AI can fix development data problems
Researchers of the Data for Development initiative introduce machine learning applied to satellite imagery as a solution to measuring sustainable development globally.
June 24, 2022
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Putting machine learning to work for development
A team of researchers have created a machine-learning tool to encourage the development of new ways to measure progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
November 08, 2021
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Protecting health care workers in low-resourced Bangladesh
Faculty Affiliates Michele Barry, Stephen Luby, and Manu Prakash are working to protect health care workers in low-resourced Bangladesh.
August 09, 2021
