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Global Health
Scholarly Publications
The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh
A randomized trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention increased mask-use and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Global Welfare Regimes: A Cluster Analysis
January 2009
This paper tests the claim that a small number of distinct „welfare regimes,combining institutional patterns and social welfare outcomes, can be identifiedacross the developing world.
News
Introducing CDDRL's incoming pre- and postdoctoral fellows
August 2016
Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is proud to announce our four incoming fellows who will be joining us in the 2016-2017 academic year to develop...
World Bank chief presents plan to end extreme poverty, prevent pandemic
November 2015
Stanford students belong to the first generation that could witness the end of extreme global poverty – in what would be one of humankind's greatest achievements – the head of the World Bank said...
Habitat for Humanity on the profile of a good 21st century NGO
March 2015
Elizabeth Blake, Habitat for Humanity International’s General Counsel and team leader of its Government Relations and Advocacy operations, spoke to students at the Freeman Spogli Institute on...
Old Events
Advancing Human Rights through Tech and Data
November 20, 2015
Abstract Human rights groups have only two assets: people and information. Learn about Benetech’s decade of putting information technology tools into the hands of human rights activists, with the...
Using Behavioral Economics and Information Communication Technology to Combat Polio in Pakistan
February 27, 2015
Speaker BioMichael CallenAssistant Professor, Public PolicyHarvard Kennedy School Michael Callen is assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Contemporary Challenges in Global Public Health: A Discussion on How Health is an Integral Aspect of the Overall Development and Sustainability Landscape
May 2, 2014
For nearly 70 years, CARE has been serving individuals and families in the world's poorest communities.
People
Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy)