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Using AI at the edge, Kabilan KB — a robotics developer and undergraduate from the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences — aims to increase mobility for people with disabilities.

In 2021, as he was campaigning to be elected vice president of Ecuador, Alfredo Borrero traveled more than 50,000 kilometers around his nation, he said, to better understand the lives of the people he wanted to serve. He visited places with no clean drinking water, no roads, little opportunity for work, and severely limited medical resources.

  A $50 million gift from Woburn, Mass.-based Cummings Foundation will build upon and amplify the work of the late Paul Farmer, a champion of global health. The gift establishes the Paul Farmer Collaborative of Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. It will be divided equally between the two institutions.

Despite overwhelming evidence of the impact of firearm-related violence and injury, why doesn’t this tragic humanitarian problem lead to a similarly coordinated response?

In low- and middle-income countries around the world, the lack of even the most basic diagnostic tools has a devastating impact on human health

This latest work is part of an ongoing effort to improve surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa, where 93 percent of the population lacks access to safe, effective, and timely surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care. That puts the region at the epicenter of a global crisis that leaves 5 billion people without the lifesaving surgical care needed to treat injuries and disease, according to the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. Studies find high levels of excess morbidity and mortality res...