Highly-skilled émigrés offer surprising ‘brain gains’ for their home countries

When highly educated citizens leave a country for job prospects abroad, it may bring surprising benefits to the country of origin. 

Directory boosts usefulness of mobile phones, bottom lines, in rural Africa

New research out of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business shows that paper business telephone directories – similar to the Yellow Pages – in Tanzania boosted sales revenue by 104% for listed businesses and increased sales.

Weill Cornell Medicine boosts medical research, health care, in Tanzania

Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues in Tanzania are fostering a new generation of M.D./Ph.D. researchers, with implications for improved health care outcomes worldwide.

Economist Kaushik Basu named co-chair of UN panel

The “High-Level Expert Group” will develop recommendations for measures that complement or go beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

Around Cornell

Students help rural Peruvians grow turmeric business

The business students traveled to a rural region of Peru to brainstorm sustainable business ideas for a local community.

Cornell Atkinson at 15: celebrating science, fostering hope

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.

Religious leaders, physicians fight hypertension in Tanzania and beyond

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and Tanzanian colleagues are leveraging clergy's influence to lower life-threatening hypertension rates in Tanzania, and potentially the U.S.

A crucial first step: WHO Pandemic Agreement

The WHO Pandemic Agreement directly addresses the risk of zoonotic spillovers — transmission of pathogens from animals to humans. With over a million undiscovered viruses in animal hosts, Raina Plowright and her colleagues urge swift action. 

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Changes in bats’ diets increase spread of viruses, spillover risk

When bats lose access to their habitat and natural food sources, they seek food on agricultural lands - new research explains why, when their diets change, they shed more virus and infect more hosts, increasing the risk of outbreaks and pandemics.