This year's Rosenkranz Prize winners embody the spirit of innovation into health care research in the developing world. Jason Andrews is looking at cheap, effective diagnostic tools for infectious diseases, while Marcella Alsan is researching how older girls in poorer countries are impacted by the health of their younger siblings.
Bad weather in sub-Saharan Africa increases the spread of HIV, according to a study published in the June 2015 issue of the Economic Journal, co-authored by Stanford professor and FSE affiliate Marshall Burke.
A research team led by FSE director Rosamond Naylor has won a $400,000 multi-year grant to study how to create sustainable palm oil supply chains that promote economic growth and environmental sustainability in Indonesia and West Africa.
Maria Polyakova, an assistant professor of health research and policy at the Stanford School of Medicine, is this year’s recipient of the Ernst-Meyer Prize, which recognizes original research about risk and health insurance economics.
