In July 2013, Stanford physician S. V. Mahadevan, MD, and colleagues conducted a study at the largest children's hospital in Karachi, Pakistan to understand the …
Tag: global health
Stanford undergrad uncovers importance of traditional midwives in India
Lara Mitra grew up taking regular vacations with her family in her ancestral home, the state of Gujarat in India, but those short trips barely …
Changing the prevailing attitude about AIDS, gender and reproductive health in southern Africa
During the 1990s and early 2000s, HIV/AIDS pummeled through southern Africa killing thousands. Although the epidemic has abated somewhat, the disease is still spreading through …
Child-mortality gap narrows in developing countries
Child-mortality rates in developing countries are decreasing. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that worldwide mortality rates for children under the age of five have …
Stanford undergrad works to redistribute unused medications and reduce health-care costs
Sanchay Gupta arrived at Stanford with a strong interest in income inequality. In 2013, he spent two weeks of his summer vacation in Guatemala exploring …
Ebola: This outbreak is different
Misinformation about Ebola blankets the web. To clarify priorities, and spur action, Stanford global health specialist Michele Barry, MD, penned a strongly worded essay published …
Stanford physician shares his story of treating Ebola patients in Liberia
For a month, emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, found himself in the remote, dense jungle of northeast Liberia in the heat of the battle against …
Exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengue
Every year, more than 200 million people are affected by malaria and 50 to 100 million new dengue infections occur. Now, a group of scientists …
How to keep safe while operating on Ebola patients
Amid the Ebola crisis, two U.S. surgeons with a combined 30 years of working in developing countries have stepped forward to help disseminate well-defined protocols …
Dr. Paul Farmer: We should be saving Ebola patients
The photo says it all: A very slender, ailing man sits on the floor with his head bent, completely alone in the dark in what …
Video of Stanford Ebola panel now available
Last week, a group of Stanford and CDC experts came together to address the health, governance, security and ethical dimensions of Ebola, the virus that is …
Interdisciplinary campus panel to examine Ebola outbreak from all angles
Scientists have estimated that the West Africa Ebola epidemic will take another 12-18 months to control and will infect hundreds of thousands of more people …
Should we worry? Stanford's global health chief weighs in on Ebola
As Ebola rampages across western Africa, Stanford Magazine sat down with Michele Barry, MD, who directs Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health. Barry knows …
The pied piper of cool science tools
When Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash, PhD, and his students set out to solve a challenging global health problem, the first order of business is to …
Waste not, want not, say global sanitation innovators
Last week’s C-IDEA global health symposium here at Stanford featured 20 presentations on low-cost ideas for preventing disease in developing nations. As I wrote in …