Setbacks: Girls' Exclusion from Education is Solvable
Angeline Murimirwa is executive director of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). By engaging local communities in their nomination process, young people and their families receive support that ...
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Setbacks: Global Health Inequity is Solvable
As part of our Setbacks series examining the impact of COVID-19 on global development, Paul Farmer explains why he is still optimistic after working for 40 years to end global health inequities. Paul ...
14 Huhti 202129min
Surgical Site Infections in Developing Countries Can be Solved
Dasia Taylor is a senior at Iowa City West High School. She’s working to develop and produce medical sutures, dyed with beets, that can detect infections and alert patients to signs of risk.According ...
7 Huhti 202112min
Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem
Cults and other manipulative groups are an issue of public health and Diane Benscoter has strategies that may help.Diane Benscoter is the founder of Antidote and the author of Shoes of a Servant: My U...
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Making Medical Deliveries by Drone is Solvable
Keller Rinaudo is the CEO and Founder of Zipline International. Their “sky ambulance” service is delivering medical supplies to hard to reach places via drone delivery.Here are some links to informati...
24 Maalis 202122min
Racialized Trauma is Solvable
Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay atten...
17 Maalis 202126min
Extreme Poverty in New York City is Solvable
Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City and he thinks that extreme poverty is a solvable problem. Here are some links to learn more about universal basic income and guaranteed minimum income...
10 Maalis 202124min
The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable
Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2020 for her work researching and docume...
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