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Our public impact-focused team shares timely analysis, insights, news, and ideas about the ways universities, governments, businesses, and nonprofits are working together to use evidence and experience to make progress on the world’s hardest social challenges.
Lisa Goldman Rosas (left), Steven Chen (middle), Amy Lazarus Yaroch (right).
In 2018, 1 in 9 Americans couldn’t afford enough food to lead active, healthy lives. COVID-19 has doubled those numbers. The Food for Health Equity Lab brings together epidemiologists, biostatisticians, physicians, and leaders from ALL IN Alameda County, the Community Health Center Network, Dig Deep Farms, Open Source Wellness, the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, and Stanford University to generate evidence about how community health centers can provide nutritious food and vegetables and reduce chronic disease.
Jennifer Fei (left), Patrick McEvenue (middle), Sjef van Grinsven (right).
More than 270 million people have left their home countries for better lives abroad. The Immigration Policy Lab is working with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) in the Netherlands to design, test, and scale an algorithm-based tool for government partners to match new immigrants to locations where they are likely to be most successful.
Daniel Ho (left), Dan Palmer (right).
The Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) is working with federal and state environmental protection agencies to build a program for clean water and environmental compliance. RegLab’s faculty director Daniel Ho and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Attorney Dan Palmer describe the team’s work to use EPA data to increase compliance with environmental regulations designed to keep water clean and safe for everyone.
Paul Blumenthal (left), Beverly Winikoff (right).
The power to determine whether and when to have children often depends on where people live and how much money they have. Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health Projects, and Paul Blumenthal, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University, describe their team’s efforts to create new ways for individuals to use reproductive health technologies where and when they need them.
Stephen Luby (left), Sameer Maithel (middle), Debashish Biswas (right).
Brick manufacturing creates a substantial number of jobs in Bangladesh and is a big part of the economy. Kilns used to make bricks also generate enormous pollution. Stephen Luby, professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Woods Institute of the Environment, Sameer Maithel, director of Greentech Knowledge Solutions in New Delhi, India, and Debashish Biswas, assistant scientist at Bangladesh-based health research institute icddr, b, describe the work their team of scientists, brick manufacturing association members, and clean energy advisors are doing to create cleaner and still profitable brick manufacturing.