Six students with ties to MIT have been awarded fellowships by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation: Jeffrey Brown, Liyam Chitayat, Vaibhav Mohanty, Sahil Pontula, Benjamin Spector, and Beatriz Yankelevich.
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Malawi and the World Health Organization are rolling out a new malaria vaccine for young children that backers say will reduce deaths from the mosquito-borne disease. The RTSS vaccine was pilot tested on more than one million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi and recommended a year ago by the WHO. Despite a low effectiveness…