Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health

Climate change is driving a global rise in dengue fever. A Stanford-led study shows cleaning up trash can significantly reduce disease risk.

A new book co-edited by Stanford’s Desiree LaBeaud explores transforming research and changing lives through equitable partnerships that focus on human connections.

In Brazil, climate and other human-made environmental changes threaten decades-long efforts to fight schistosomiasis, a widespread and debilitating parasitic disease. Now, Stanford and Brazilian researchers have developed models that can predict how the disease risk will shift in response to environmental changes.

Climate change and human activity are enabling the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, like dengue fever, to new places. Stanford infectious disease experts and disease ecologists discuss what we know and how communities can protect themselves from these changing disease threats.

With the risk of mosquito-borne disease expected to grow with climate change, a new study by Stanford researchers and their Kenyan colleagues sheds light on the factors that put communities at risk for these illnesses – including the presence of trash.

The new device can continuously sense levels of virtually any protein or molecule in the blood. The researchers say it could be transformative for disease detection, patient monitoring and biomedical research.

Stanford medical student Hannah Wild traveled to the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia to survey the health of the nomadic Nyangatom who live there – and to show that people who are hard to count still count.