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Blum Student and the Project Changing a Nation
Global Poverty and Practice student, Marissa Kaye Scott, travels to Malawi to support the program making big impacts in the “warm heart of Africa”. Click here to
July 28, 2017
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Power Isn’t Water: Learnings from Kenya’s Rural Electrification Efforts
In Sub-Saharan Africa, two out of three people, or 600 million individuals, still lack access to electricity. Given the massive scale of energy poverty, several
May 13, 2019
More Than Hardware: Challenges in Education Technology in Africa
By Sybil Lewis In 2012, the Inter-American Development Bank concluded that children in Peru receiving computers from the American nonprofit One Laptop per Child did
April 22, 2015
Clarifying Poverty Action: A Profile of GPP Student Kristian Kim
By Nicholas Bobadilla Kristian Kim decided to pursue a minor in Global Poverty & Practice because she felt a moral impetus to mitigate poverty. Instead,
November 9, 2015
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Student Teams Tackle “Period Poverty” and “Pre-Diabetes Intervention” in the Health Tech CoLab
Hebee is one of two Berkeley student teams that developed their innovations over the past year through the Health Tech CoLab, an ecosystem to support students developing medical devices, diagnostic tools, and digital health tools that increase access to healthcare. The CoLab’s Health Access Cohort also included Diaita, which offers personalized diet and exercise plans as well as cognitive behavior therapy to ward off Type 2 diabetes and its associated illnesses.
June 13, 2023
