King Center on Global Development

Share your research at the King Center’s 2026 Global Development Research Symposium: Students from all disciplines are invited to apply for a poster presentation by March 29.

A faculty affiliate at the Stanford King Center, Lo has played an important role in shaping new WHO guidelines, striving to reduce health disparities and enhance access to essential treatments for underserved communities.

Researchers at the King Center on Global Development are addressing challenges such as gender-based violence and low labor participation, with the aim to inform supportive policy interventions.

The center’s full-time summer fellowship program matches undergrads with Stanford faculty to explore everything from Indonesian seaweed farming to machine learning.

Monitoring environmental compliance is a particular challenge for governments in poor countries. A new machine learning approach that uses satellite imagery to pinpoint highly polluting brick kilns in Bangladesh could provide a low-cost solution.

The Stanford King Center on Global Development expands efforts to improve quality of life in the developing world.