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Public Health
Cleaning Poop from Drinking Water
Interviews Woods Senior Fellows Stephen Luby and Jenna Davis and Woods Research Associate Amy Pickering about their work with the Lotus Water Project.
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Your Brain on Nature
Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) discusses her research on how nature can improve well-being.
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Is It Safe to Go to the Beach?
Woods Senior Fellow Alexandria Boehm tests for bacteria in samples of sand from beaches, and provides tips for beachgoers to reduce their risk of exposure to dangerous pathogens.
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How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
Features research co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) about how a walk in nature affects the brain.
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How Giant Prawns Could Fight Tropical Disease and Poverty
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Giulio De Leo (Humanities and Sciences) and Woods Affiliate Susanne Sokolow on their research using prawns to fight Schistosomiasis in Senegal.
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River Prawn Becomes New Weapon Against Schistosomiasis
Discusses research findings from Woods Senior Fellow Giulio De Leo (Biology), Woods Affiliate Susanne Sokolow and other researchers on using prawns to fight Schistosomiasis in Senegal.
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The Power of Green Space
Features research co-authored by Woods Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) about how a walk in nature affects the brain
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Can You Prescribe Nature?
Discusses research, co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily (Biology) on the mental health benefits of time in nature
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How Walking in Nature Prevents Depression
Features research on nature's effect on rumination co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily
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New Research Suggests Nature Walks Are Good for Your Brain
Discusses research co-authored by Senior Fellow Gretchen Daily
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Stanford Researchers Rethink Sanitation System for Urban Slums
Features dry toilet and related service system developed by researchers affiliated with Woods' Water, Health & Development Program
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Human Price of Forest Destruction Paid in Plague
Senior Fellow James Holland Jones (Anthropology) discusses the need to study disease mechanisms to better understand how diseases are being transmitted to humans.
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Restoring Threatened Mussels To Freshwater Could Cut E. Coli Contamination
Cites research findings by Senior Woods Fellow Alexandria Boehm (Engineering), Senior Woods Fellow Richard Luthy (Engineering), and Niveen Ismail, a Stanford graduate student in environmental engineering, that mussels can remove contaminants such as Escherichia coli from freshwater.
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Is Targeting Access to Sanitation Enough?
Commentary by Senior Fellow Stephen Luby (Medicine) explaining why many well-funded sanitation programs may actually be misguided because they fail to focus on issues such as changing defecation habits, handwashing promotion, rotavirus vaccines, nutritional supplementation and clinical improvements.
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The Hidden Leaks of Pennsylvania's Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
Quotes Senior Fellow Rob Jackson on emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells
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Study finds alarming level of lead in pregnant women
Study conducted by Dr Steve Luby shows alarming statistics regarding the levels of lead in pregnant women in country's remote areas.
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Study Finds Alarming Level of Lead in Pregnant Women
Discusses interim results of Environmental Venture Project-supported research showing link between pesticide use and lead poisoning.
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Biomass Burning Accounts for 18% of CO2 Emissions, Kills a Quarter of a Million People Annually
Describes new study by Woods Senior Fellow Mark Jacobson on the effects of wildfires and other burning on human health and the environment
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Climate Change: Carbon Soot in Wildfires Contributing to Global Warming
Describes study by Woods Senior Fellow Mark Jacobson on study that found burning biomass is playing bigger role in climate change and human health issues than previously thought
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The 50-Cent Invention That Could Change the World
Describes inexpensive paper microscope created by Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering affiliated with the Stanford Woods Institute
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