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Contemporary Developing Countries begins

On Wednesday, August 31, the innovative SAI platform course SW47: Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems began. Over 80 students, a combination of undergraduates and graduate students, “shopped” the...

Alum Q+A: Saving lives at birth

Sabeena Jalal, an alum of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and currently based in Karachi, has developed a blade to be used by midwives during childbirth to cut the umbilical cord. The blade does not get infected, so she hopes the tool can reduce the rate of infant mortality in developing countries.

Faculty voices: Studying biology abroad

“The students’ experience changed their view of India and the developing world,” writes Ryan Draft, Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, who brings Harvard students to India for a biological sciences summer abroad internship.