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Global Health Tuesday: Technology and Diabetic Care in Rural Guatemala
When: April 24th, 4:30 p.m. Where: Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1309 James Svenson, 2016 GHI Seed Grant recipient, presents on his team’s collaboration with a group from Stanford University to develop a computer-based app that can be used by village health promoters in San Lucas Tolimán, a town of 17,000, to monitor their diabetic…
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Global Health Tuesday: Polluted Fish and Cycles of Poverty
2016 GHI Seed Grant Recipient Peter McIntyre discusses his project on tracing the global scope of mercury contamination of inland subsistence fisheries, ecological patterns, health threats and source tracking. This project addresses an unrecognized facet of the cycle of poverty: contamination of food fish with neurotoxins. Mercury from global and local sources biomagnifies in fish, and…
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Global Health Tuesday: Developing a Global Flood Prediction Model
Full presentation below: Donghoon Lee, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, will discuss his research with Paul Block, who received a 2016 GHI Seed Grant to investigate how better flood prediction can support advanced disaster preparedness and identify public health risks. Among all natural hazards, flood catastrophes consistently have the greatest impact…