Uniting Mother and Child: A Battle Against Postpartum Hemorrhage
In developing countries, maternal mortality rates are shockingly high in comparison to the rates in developed countries. The most common cause of maternal mortality is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). This devastating condition is easily treated in the developed world, where mortality rates due to PPH are close to nil. In the developing world, however, these … Continue reading “Uniting Mother and Child: A Battle Against Postpartum Hemorrhage”
- Team Members: Sandeep Prabhu
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Los Angeles
- 2014
Mosquitoes Suck! Malarial Hotspots and the Opportunity for LAMP
The eradication of malaria is hampered by the ability of current diagnostic tools to detect very low-density infections in asymptomatic patients. In response to this, the aim is to employ loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), an innovative and novel technique to test for asymptomatic malaria. This low-cost technique is faster and more accurate compared to … Continue reading “Mosquitoes Suck! Malarial Hotspots and the Opportunity for LAMP”
- Team Members: Laila Soudi, Carmen Conroy, Justin Abraham, Priyanka Athavale, Oscar Vazquez, Neve Keshav, Shannon Younessi, Anshal Gupta
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Spot-It!
Anti-malarial pills are among the most highly counterfeited drugs in Africa. Malaria kills between 1 and 3 million people every year, with 90% of those deaths in Africa. This reduces productivity in Africa by $12 billion and devastates local economies. The project aims to identify counterfeit anti-malarial drugs by developing a new technique to … Continue reading “Spot-It!”
- Team Members: Shreya Condamoor, Annsea Park, Geunwon Jung
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Promoting Yogurt to Improve Child Nutrition in Far-Western Nepal
The causes of child stunting, a nutritional status indicator defined as poor height for weight, include inadequate caloric intake, low protein consumption (particularly of animal source protein), frequent diarrheal illness, and poor nutrient absorption in the gut due to chronic latent infection. Probiotic supplements, paired with an adequate diet, are a promising strategy for … Continue reading “Promoting Yogurt to Improve Child Nutrition in Far-Western Nepal”
- Team Members: Wenjuan Chen, Stacy McCoy, Sruthi Narayanan, Damarius Fleming
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- Texas A&M University
- 2014
ElectroSan: Recovering Nitrogen from Urine in Nairobi, Kenya
4.6 billion people across the developing world lack adequate treatment of their feces and urine. ElectroSan will apply electrochemical cells that recover nitrogen from human urine. This product will be used to disinfect human feces and produce income as a fertilizer, making sanitation affordable in low-income communities like Mukuru, an urban Nairobi slum. This … Continue reading “ElectroSan: Recovering Nitrogen from Urine in Nairobi, Kenya”
- Team Members: William Tarpeh
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
InversionParaTodos.com.ar
InversionParaTodos.com.ar is a web based educational platform that will provide a set of tools that help individuals to manage debt, savings, public benefits, investments and other money related issues more effectively. The platform will target four million individuals from Argentina, between the ages of 20 and 40, who come from a low and middle … Continue reading “InversionParaTodos.com.ar”
- Team Members: Luciano Colos, Alejandro Castillejo
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
The Employment and Life Skills Academic Competition
The Employment and Life Skills Academic Competition is a program that teaches teenagers resume writing, job interview and oral presentation skills, and financial literacy. The objective is to prepare high school students for life after graduation by not only making them competitive for the workforce but also teaching them information about managing their finances. … Continue reading “The Employment and Life Skills Academic Competition”
- Team Members: Michael Signorotti
- Financial Inclusion
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Documentary Movie about Adopted Kids
The project strives to establish a communication between the United States and Russia that will discuss issues through authentic and open dialogue using social media. As a first step, the team will make a movie showing how Russian adopted kids have been raised in America. It will be a way to demonstrate that a … Continue reading “Documentary Movie about Adopted Kids”
- Team Member: Irina Lozhkina
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
The Food Bikery
The Food Bikery seeks to prove that food bikes are an economically viable, safe, and legal alternative to food trucks. In transitioning mobile food off of trucks and onto bicycles, the Food Bikery will: 1. Lower oil consumption; 2. Stimulate economic opportunities for low-income food entrepreneurs; 3. Increase physical well-being and health; 4. Foster … Continue reading “The Food Bikery”
- Team Members: John Romankiewicz, Jason Trager, Laura Moreno, Pierce Gordon
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2014