The Program on Poverty and Governance has an ongoing student research laboratory initiative that provides Stanford undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to engage in on-the-ground research.
Professor Beatriz Magaloni led several fieldwork trips including the 2013 Bing Overseas Program to Rio de Janeiro that explored some of the challenges and implications to favela residents in terms of security, local governance and economic and social development in “pacified” territories and a three-week field-trip to Guatemala in which students are given the chance to explore issues of maternal and children's health and to study the impact of local governance on health outcomes.
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Students trip to Guatemala in 2014.Photo credit: Beatriz Magaloni
Students trip to Guatemala in 2014.Photo credit: Beatriz Magaloni
Professor Magaloni and students visiting local health agents in Guatemala.Photo credit: Elena Cryst
Photo credit: Beatriz Magaloni
Professor Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and students interviewing local residents in Guatemala.Photo credit: Beatriz Magaloni
Student playing with kids in Guatemala.Photo credit: Beatriz Magaloni
Professor Magaloni participating in a volunteer work with fifteen students at Santa Marta Favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Photo credit: Vanessa Melo
Stanford students walking throughout the alleys of Alemao favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo credit: Veriene Melo 
Stanford students visiting Alemao Complex of Favelas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Photo credit: Elena Cryst
NGO Jongo da Serrinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Photo credit: Vanessa Melo
Students visiting Major Nogueira, former commander of Mangueira Pacifying Police Unit. 
2013 Bing Overseas Program, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo credit: Veriene Melo 
Volunteer work at Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Photo credit: Elena Cryst
Professor Beatriz Magaloni and her research team at Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas, Mexico. Photo credit: Kristof Gosztony
