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Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sharath Srinivasan

25 Jun 2020

“Without trust, we don’t flatten the curve,” says Sharath Srinivasan, whose work in developing countries has given him an acute insight into how...

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Found in translation

03 Jun 2020

How Cambridge researcher Dr Ebele Mogo helped tackle a coronavirus public health language gap across Africa in four weeks and 18 languages with 30...

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James Wood enjoying amazing freshly roasted Ethiopian coffee in a traditional coffee house in Sebeta, during a field trip prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

Tackling COVID-19: Professor James Wood

28 May 2020

“Cambridge’s infectious diseases community is making a huge contribution to tackling the pandemic,” says Professor James Wood. He leads several large...

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Students in class in Burkina Faso

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

27 May 2020

Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern...

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Surging numbers of first-generation learners at risk of being left behind in education systems worldwide

21 May 2020

‘First-generation learners’ – a substantial number of pupils around the world who represent the first generation in their families to receive an...

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Tackling COVID-19: Dr Freya Jephcott

07 May 2020

“Complex social, political, economic and ecological forces not only drive infectious disease emergence, but increase our susceptibility to epidemics...

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Coronavirus pandemic: making safer emergency hospitals

28 Apr 2020

Simple, low-cost ventilation designs and configuration of wards can reduce the dispersal of airborne virus in emergency COVID-19 hospitals, say...

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Dr Restif (left) with collaborators from the University of Ghana in Accra, July 2019

Tackling COVID-19: Dr Olivier Restif

23 Apr 2020

“We have been expecting a pandemic like this for nearly twenty years,” says Olivier Restif, who uses mathematical modelling to understand how...

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Life-saving origami

21 Apr 2020

Cambridge researchers are sharing a quick and easy way to mass produce face shields for health workers in the poorest countries.

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Open-source ventilator designed by Cambridge team for use in low- and middle-income countries

20 Apr 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at the University of Cambridge has designed an open-source ventilator in partnership with local...

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Global coalition needed to transform girls’ education - report

25 Feb 2020

A new report aims to provide a framework so that "governments and those in power can turn goodwill into action”.

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Fixing India’s slum rehabilitation housing

13 Feb 2020

Millions of new houses being built for former slum-dwellers are failing their residents and fuelling unnecessary energy use. New research aims to...

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