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Health care institutions
Scholarly Publications
Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organization
July 2006
All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and...
News
Syrian doctors who torture must be banned
July 2011
In an opinion piece for Al Jazeera, Rajaie Batniji uncovers the role of medical professionals involved in acts of torture.
The IMF: Violating Women Since 1945
June 2011
In reaction to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Khan for allegations of rape in May, Kavita Ramdas and Christine Ahn argue in a piece for Foreign Policy in Focus that gender bias is embedded in the...
Nathan Eagle on mobile phone usage in the developing world
December 2010
Nathan Eagle, Founder and CEO of txteagle spoke at the weekly Liberation Technology Seminar Series on Dececember 2, 2010 about mobile phone usage in the developing world.
Events
Prison Hunger Strikes and Globalizing the Anti- Apartheid Struggle
April 26, 2013
AbstractIn 1989 more than 700 South African political prisoners went on indefinite hunger strike to protest their detention.
Mobile Development Meets Design Thinking
September 23, 2010
A class was given in the dSchool last spring.
Grassroots Empowerment: Can Models from India Spark a Revolution in Healthcare Delivery in China?
January 14, 2010
In the four years since a State Council think tank, the Development Research Center, bluntly declared the failure of three decades of healthcare reform, China has placed a high political priority...
People
Lanhee J. Chen Affiliated Faculty David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution, Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer, Public Policy Program 