Fahdi Alew, a Spring 2025 recipient of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Projects in Emerging Markets, has spent the past several months...

Women in a remote area of Kenya travel great distances — sometimes on foot, sometimes with small children — for surgery to repair...

"Leah Oruko’s ambitions extend farther than the borders of her hometown in New Castle County, Delaware. They even extend beyond the...

By Center for Emerging Markets, on December 14th, 2023 While gearing up for graduation, Shreyas Mosurkal, a fourth-year Health Science...

By Center for Emerging Markets, on December 11th, 2023 In the remote regions of Baringo County, Kenya, Alex Chang, a fourth-year Biology...

You may never have heard of visceral leishmaniasis, even though it’s the second deadliest parasitic disease in the world. As far as this...

By Fred Kibor, Sammy Lutta, Florah Koech and Oscar Kakai on February 3, 2022 Patients from all over Kenya travel to Chemolingot...

By Molly Callahan on December 7, 2021 Sarah Weihl and Catherine Wenger, both fifth-year students at Northeastern, had only recently begun...

Northeastern University researchers recently returned from a four-day workshop in Kenya, where they worked with local health experts to...

Western Pokot is one of the six areas within the region of Baringo. It is located in the north west of Kenya. Its population exceeds...

By Hugh Shirley In the world of global health, it’s pills, vaccines, and other preventive measures often at center stage. Most...

by Anthony Kuria Wanjiru on August 12, 2019 BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya—Ten-year-old Lopeto Losile looked confused. He sat on a wooden bench in...

By Vibha Varshney and Lominda Afedraru on November 28, 2018 Around 20 people have gathered at a grassy patch in front of a tin shed in...

by Bill Ibelle on June 6, 2018 One form of the disease begins with large open sores that won’t heal, then migrates to the nose and lips,...

By Aryn Baker and Joseph Hincks on April 17, 2020 On April 14,the first batch of World Health Organization medical supplies arrived in...

By Schuyler Velasco on April 8, 2020 Infectious diseases in poor, remote regions can wreak havoc for years without any attention....