Changemakers

'ChangeMaker' uses business enterprise to promote public health

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By Lisa Stiffler, Humanosphere correspondentIn wealthy countries, it’s no problem for an organization to provide a single, narrowly defined service. In a…

Univeristy of Washington student propose using native African spiders to prey on mosquitoes who transmit malaria.

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Can spiders fight malaria? UW students think so

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By Cyan James, Humanosphere correspondentA fresh crop of Changemakers has been identified by the Washington Global Health Alliance’s Be the Change student…

Gates Grand Challenges award winner Kathleen Bongiovanni demonstrates how a simple idea may save the lives of millions of premature babies.

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How a passing comment on an old medical test won a $100K grant

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Earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the latest 100 winners of $100,000 grants from its Grand Challenges Exploration program…

Quick BIO: Kimberly Choi, 23, is a research technician at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed) and a University of Washington graduate.

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Hooked on science by accident, Kimberly Choi puts it to work in the global community

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By Lisa Stiffler, Humanosphere correspondentKimberly Choi wound up testing malaria vaccines on mice quite by accident.But in 2006, Choi was encouraged by…

Quick BIO: Ines Tucakovic, 27, senior clinical research assistant with Seattle’s Infectious Disease Research Institute

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Changemakers: Ines Tucakovic puts humanitarian goals to work doing TB research

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By Lisa Stiffler, Humanosphere correspondentInes Tucakovic was only a child when she and her family fled the war in their native Bosnia. But her job at…

Quick BIO: Dean Chahim, 22, is a cofounder of Critical Development Forum, a University of Washington graduate and recipient of a Bonderman Travel Fellowship.

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Changemakers: Dean Chahim wants to launch a 'do-good' revolution

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By Lisa Stiffler, Humanosphere correspondentCan Dean Chahim save the world?Not alone, he can’t. But if he can inspire and educate enough people in…

Students from Washington and Cambodia pose at the school in the village of Pailin built in part with money raised by the Overlake School in Redmond.

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Changemakers: Redmond high school kids help fellow students in Cambodia

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By Claudia Rowe, Humanosphere correspondentIn a lesson showing just how far one unlikely idea can travel, 18 upper affluent kids from suburban Seattle are…

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Changemakers: Katie Leach-Kemon, motivated by experience and empowered by math

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“Changemakers” is a new series on Humanosphere exploring how young people, connected and globally aware, are working to change the world.By Lisa Stiffler,…

Quick BIO: Noah Derman, 31, is development director for Development in Gardening in Atlanta and a University of Washington graduate.

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Changemakers: Winning, one vegetable patch at a time

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By Lisa Stiffler, special correspondentGlobal health and development is by definition bound to be overpowering. So Noah Derman has a strategy for not…

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Changemakers: Becky Bartlein, health advocate, hot on the trail of bad drugs

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It’s been a battle to get drug manufacturers to make medicines needed by people in developing countries, drugs to treat diseases expunged from wealthy…