| Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
8th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening moved to April 18, 2022
The 8th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening will be held in-person on Monday, April 18, 2022 from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT at the Arrillaga Alumni Center on Stanford University campus. The Convening is a…
| Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
Executive Summary
Launched in 2020, the Stanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health and Woods Institute for the Environment and the…
| California Academy of Sciences
Protected by Prawns
Restoring native crustaceans along West Africa’s Senegal River may be a critical step in controlling one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases. Our research is featured in this new video by California Academy of Sciences.
| Stanford News
Reducing tapeworm infection could improve academic performance, reduce poverty, Stanford research suggests
A Stanford-led study in China has revealed for the first time high levels of a potentially fatal tapeworm infection, Taenia solium, among school-age children. This study, led by Stanford's John Openshaw, was recently published in …
| The Lancet
New Journal Just Launched: Lancet Planetary Health
Wondering what 'Planetary Health' is all about? Read for yourself at the new scientific journal 'Lancet: Planetary Health' an online-only, open-access journal dedicated to the topic. The journal was launched April 2017.
| Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Winning with Water: Funding Awarded to Revitalize Urban Slums
Stanford’s Stephen Luby to direct health evaluation of prestigious research collaboration led by Monash University to revitalize slums through water management strategies.
| MacArthur Foundation
Stanford's Manu Prakash - McArthur Genius Fellow
Stanford’s Manu Prakash is a physical biologist applying his expertise in soft-matter physics to illuminate often easy to observe but hard to explain phenomena in biological and physical contexts and to invent solutions to difficult problems in…
| NPR
A Creative Approach to Controlling a Deadly Snail
An ecological solution - restoring a native predator in Africa's rivers to improve human health - gains national and international attention. Hear an interview with Susanne Sokolow, one of the Program for Disease Ecology, Health and the…