Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fellowship recognizes individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored an op-ed in The Hill comparing the coronavirus response to fighting a war. In the article, titled “Fighting a virus with the wrong tools,” Prof. Crawford and Prof. Catherine Lutz, co-founders and co-directors of […]
WATCH ON YOUTUBE On April 1, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia hosted a livestreamed seminar titled “Coronavirus and the Future of Infectious Disease.” The seminar featured a panel discussion including Nahid Bhadelia (Associate Professor, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, BU School of […]
Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the author of a new book, titled Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens, published by Harper Wave. The book explores the rise of antibiotic resistance, which leads […]
Bryan Patenaude, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently made the 2020 Forbes “30 Under 30” List in the healthcare category. Patenaude is a healthcare economist specializing in disease intervention, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. He currently leads a project that seeks […]
Lawrence Were, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Health Sciences at Sargent College and in the Department of Global Health at the School of Public Health, recently authored an article titled “Effects of social health insurance on access and […]
Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a new paper exploring healthcare reform in the developing world. The paper, published in the journal Sociological Forum, is titled “The Politics of Expanding Healthcare Access to the Poor and Informal Sectors” […]
On October 17, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar titled “The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health.” The seminar featured Pardee Center Faculty Associate Lawrence Were (BU School of Public Health & Sargent College); Hwa-Young Lee (Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health); Afreen Siddiqi (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics […]
Suchi Gopal, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk on spatial analytics in public health at a symposium hosted by the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD) Working Group and the Center […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “The Informal Sector and Universal Health Coverage: Crucial Considerations,” was written by Lawrence Were, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and an Assistant Professor in both BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences […]