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Philip Rotz, a PhD candidate in the Boston University History Department and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an editorial exploring the transmission of viruses — such as chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika — transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito in urban coastal areas of South Africa. […]
Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Biology, is part of a research team that is attempting the first lake-wide fish biodiversity survey in the world’s largest tropical lake, Lake Victoria. The team recently launched a multi-part […]
Chukwuemeka Umeh, a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper in the journal Global Health Research and Policy. The paper, which stems from Umeh’s research at the Pardee Center, explores premium exemption for […]
A panel of experts spoke about the impact of cancer and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the developing world at a seminar on February 24 hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The seminar, titled “Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World: The Looming Crisis in Global Health,” was moderated by Pardee […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a seminar titled “Cancer and NCDs in the Developing World: The Looming Crisis in Global Health” on Wednesday, February 24 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center at 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor. Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow […]
Cancer is the leading global cause of death, and has been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide, which are projected to account for roughly 80 percent of global cancer diagnoses by 2030. Much like the inadequate funding and priority-setting that plagued the treatment of HIV/AIDS early in the epidemic, cancer treatment […]
Two alumni of the Graduate Summer Fellows Program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future were recently featured in a BU Research Special Report for their work in Africa. Lilly Havstad and Christopher Conz, both doctoral candidates in BU’s History Department and members of the Summer Fellows Program in 2014 and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a symposium on Tuesday, November 17 at the Boston University School of Law titled, “Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries.” Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos gave an introduction, followed by presentations by Richard Moss (Senior Scientist, […]
Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology, and agriculture of Africa, spoke about his recently published book, The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits, at a seminar hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Tuesday, September 29. The book is an […]
Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez was one of several co-authors of a paper titled “Ensuring climate information guides long-term development” published in the September 2015 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. The paper addresses the failure of many sub-Saharan African countries to include climate information in long-term development decision-making. The region, which faces significant climate adaptation challenges […]