A program that protects families in rural Bangladesh from seasonal income insecurity — established in collaboration with Yale economist Mushfiq Mobarak — is among the world’s most cost-effective anti-poverty interventions, according to charity evaluator...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has made an annual commitment of $120,000 to its newest program to support Yale Ph.D. students in their professional development.
All Ph.D. students in the humanities and...
For Yale’s David Post, it is the unintended consequence of his research and training project in Africa that may have the most lasting impact.
Post, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, heads a research laboratory that is giving Yale students and...
Despite having the medical training to treat the breathing problems of prematurely born babies, doctors in places with fewer resources are continually frustrated by the lack of technology to do so properly.
“They are trained medical experts and they know...
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, will deliver the 2018 University-Wide Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lecture.
Her lecture, “Essential Solutions and Technologies to Eliminate...
The United States has spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan on economic interventions, such as job-training programs and direct cash payments, to counter violent extremism, but a new study casts doubt on the ability of these initiatives to reduce...
China’s reemergence as a global power has coincided with policies, including urbanization measures and family planning initiatives, that sometimes pit the Chinese state’s interests against those of individual citizens.
Daniel Mattingly, assistant...