global health

Portrait of Kerry Eller, Connor Holmes, and Abigale Purvis.

3 ways to create socially conscious academic careers

Kerry Eller, Abigale Purvis, and Connor Holmes receive the Harold D. Hodgkinson Award, one of Northeastern’s highest awards for academics and experiential performance, for their dedication to improving health systems and creating socially responsible businesses.

by Emily Arntsen April 9, 2021

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

They’re harnessing the power of Big Data to track COVID-19 and other diseases

In partnership with Google.org and The Rockefeller Foundation, a team of researchers led by Northeastern professor Samuel Scarpino has launched Global.health, a collaborative platform that consolidates disease outbreak data from around the world into one free resource.

by Emily Arntsen - contributor February 24, 2021

Kerry Eller, a bioengineering student at Northeastern, has been named a Truman Scholar. The scholarship is a national award and the premiere fellowship in the United States for those pursuing careers as public service leaders. Photo courtesy of Kerry Eller. Photo courtesy Kerry Eller

She’s solving global health issues on a local level

Bioengineering student Kerry Eller has studied international law and policy in Geneva, started developing a low-cost wearable pesticide monitor for agricultural workers in Santiago, and taught technicians, technical students, and engineers in Ethiopia critical skills for developing medical devices. She has been named a Truman Scholar.

by Khalida Sarwari April 19, 2020

Aneri Pattani, AMD'17, poses for a portrait in February 2017. She recently wrapped up a weeklong reporting trip in Liberia with <i>New York Times</i> Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof. <i>Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University</i>

Journalist finds ‘striking’ stories, inspiring people on global reporting trip

Aneri Pattani recently wrapped up a weeklong reporting trip in Liberia with New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof. “I see journalism as a way to learn more every day and try to work on my own ignorance and understand the different ways people live,” she says. “In a lot of ways that’s what I took away from this trip, but on an international scale.”

by Greg St. Martin July 7, 2017

Northeastern appoints Susan Parish dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Parish comes to Northeastern from Brandeis University, where she is the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and inaugural director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy.

by Greg St. Martin January 20, 2017

Crowdfunding drug discovery

The secrecy model that dominates drug discovery doesn’t work for neglected tropical diseases, which affect more than 1 billion people each year. Associate professor Michael…

by Angela Herring October 28, 2013

3Qs: What to know about the new bird flu virus

Network scientist Alessandro Vespignani, who studies the spread of diseases, explains the pandemic potential of the emerging H7N9 bird flu and why it's different from past strains.

by Angela Herring May 13, 2013