Media Mentions

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 Affiliate Eric Hanushek speaks on the Top Class podcast about how smarter public spending on education would improve learning outcomes and make societies better off.

Graduate Student Research Funding recipient Michelle Ha describes how following the agave trade exposes the roots of solidarity across empires.

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.

In rural Burundi, Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Swanson investigates why employers under-invest in training their employees in general skills.

An experiment by Faculty Affiliate Katherine Casey in Sierra Leone finds that if you build a debate platform, candidates will come.

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.

In VoxDev, a King Center initiative shows that women’s microcredit groups stimulate women’s political participation by building their networks.

Affiliated Researcher Jenna Forsyth was selected for her work on shoring up food safety in South Asia, which was supported by the King Center’s lead exposure initiative.

The Human Capital Initiative at Boston University hosted Faculty Affiliate Soledad Artiz Prillaman for their third Spring Research Seminar, where she spoke on her new book.

Faculty Affiliate Erica Plambeck, a member of the King Center's initiative on reducing lead, facilitated a Bangladesh workshop on the sustainable management of lead-acid batteries.

Faculty Affiliates Rodolfo Dirzo, Khalid Osman, and Rosamond Naylor explored the importance of community-driven research, intersectional frameworks, and institutional legitimacy.

Lead pollution in LMICs, which is being researched by the King Center's initiative on reducing lead exposure, can find its way into consumer products that travel around 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.

At a Forum organized by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, Faculty Affiliate Larry Diamond spoke as the guest speaker on the decline of democracy in West Africa.

Faculty Affiliate Larry Diamond says Ghana and other African countries must determine their own model for democratic governance to champion development tailored to their needs.

As featured in Nature Human Behaviour, Faculty Affiliate Susan Athey is investigating low-cost scalable interventions to improve the quality of information circulating online.