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Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Health Blog. We know that poor girls in developing countries often lack access to sanitary napkins. But does a lack of pads actually make it more likely that girls will drop out of school? That’s the case that Sheryl WuDunn and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof make, in an essay adapted from their book Half the [...] In the process of preparing a talk on ways to use technology to study the relationship between health and place, I came across On Airs, Waters, and Places by Hippocrates. This 400 BC essay, besides being a reminder that most of today’s ‘new’ ideas have been around for a while, puts the study [...] I am giving a talk at Duke next week on mapping and health as part of the Information Science Information Studies Tech and New Media series. Tuesday 10/27 at noon in the John Hope Franklin Center. I’ll post the slides here later in the week.
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I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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