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The Center for Emerging Markets recognizes Fall 2024 recipients of the Srinivasan Family Awards
The Center for Emerging Markets recognizes Fall 2024 recipients of the Srinivasan Family Awards

The Center for Emerging Markets recognizes Fall 2024 recipients of the Srinivasan Family Awards

These students, representing three different schools and colleges at Northeastern University, will all pursue innovative research and field projects over the next year to solve pressing social, environmental, economic, and health-related problems around the world, from India, to Kenya, to Mexico, to Nigeria.

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Northeastern’s Bioinnovation Center is developing low-cost biomedical devices to transform health care in West Africa
Northeastern’s Bioinnovation Center is developing low-cost biomedical devices to transform health care in West Africa

Northeastern’s Bioinnovation Center is developing low-cost biomedical devices to transform health care in West Africa

The new Bioinnovation Center, housed at Academic City University College in Ghana and in partnership with Northeastern, will develop novel solutions to complex problems in West African health clinics.

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Malaria and maternity wards: This Northeastern student balances medical research and hospital work during Ghana co-op
Malaria and maternity wards: This Northeastern student balances medical research and hospital work during Ghana co-op

Malaria and maternity wards: This Northeastern student balances medical research and hospital work during Ghana co-op

Enam Fiattor, a first-generation Ghanaian-American, wanted a co-op experience to connect her to her roots and decide what path to take in the world of public health. These co-ops helped her with both.

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These co-op students went to Kenya to find ways to prevent one of the world’s most deadly tropical diseases 
These co-op students went to Kenya to find ways to prevent one of the world’s most deadly tropical diseases 

These co-op students went to Kenya to find ways to prevent one of the world’s most deadly tropical diseases 

For their spring semester co-op, Katherine O’Brien and Grace Kennedy traveled to Kenya to do research on visceral leishmaniasis at a clinic in Baringo County established several years ago by Richard Wamai, an associate professor at Northeastern and global health expert.

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