May 15 2020
Field Note
Passion is laced through his words when Jake Porway talks about data, demonstrating how far he’s traveled from the years when he nearly flunked out of college statistics and considered …
MAY 2020
May 14 2020
Field Note
January was drawing to a close when Lauren Sorkin reached out to her colleagues in Huangshi to wish them a happy Chinese New Year. But instead of the traditional greeting …
May 12 2020
Field Note
How to Protect Densely Populated Slums from Covid-19
Hand-washing is a challenge and social distancing impossible in the Nairobi shantytown of Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa. Often, eight people …
May 07 2020
Blueprint
Abhinav Verma can pinpoint the day he realized that the team he leads in New Delhi, working over the last year under a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support the Health …
APRIL 2020
Apr 10 2020
Human Impact
Shanti Chaganbhai Parmar knows the dangers of COVID-19, but she’s more frightened of what she will face if she can’t harvest her two acres of lush, fragrant cumin and a …
Apr 02 2020
Blueprint
Some of the most exciting energy innovations today, from pendulum power to gravity lights, are being implemented down isolated dirt roads or across remote grasslands to communities living along the …
Apr 02 2020
Blueprint
Hundreds of thousands of acres, tens of thousands of firefighters, thousands of homes, millions of tons of carbon dioxide, and human lives at risk. These have become the annual headlines …
Apr 01 2020
Human Impact
Without reliable electricity people stand little chance of earning a living and connecting into increasingly integrated supply chains and markets at home and around the world.
MARCH 2020
Mar 31 2020
Mar 31 2020
Field Note
Through our Precision Public Health initiative, the Health team traveled to rural Rajasthan in November 2019 with our partner UNICEF, to learn from health workers, community members and local officials …