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Using cell phones for public health
February 28, 2012 Nathan Eagle is an expert in how to use cell phone data to predict and influence human behavior. And he thinks that cell phones could be the next big thing in public health. That’s because cell…
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[ Winter 2012 ] In addition to his role at HSPH, Nathan Eagle is CEO of Jana (formerly txteagle), a technology company that has built a platform capable of awarding billions of people with free mobile airtime in…
Mass graves documented in Sudan, says Harvard Humanitarian Initiative-affiliated Satellite Sentinel Project
The Satellite Sentinel Project has revealed visual evidence of mass graves in Sudan's South Kordofan, near the border of the newly independent South Sudan. The findings are based on the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's analysis of DigitalGlobe satellite imagery…
New report suggests ways to use technology to improve aid in humanitarian emergencies
Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, a new report written by a team of researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), outlines ways that aid workers can use technology to tap into information…
The oddsmaker
[ Spring 2008 ] A math whiz takes on brain cancer, MS, and Alzheimer’s disease. Rebecca Betensky’s dad worked as a statistician for a global oil company on “credit rating stuff,” she says, so for a long time, she “stayed…
