Join us for a taste of medical science, as we chat with two local scientists about their research!
Thomas Chupein, J-PAL, MIT
Randomized Evaluations of Economic Interventions: J-PAL and the Movement for Evidence-informed Policy
Randomized controlled trials have long been used in medicine and public health. In recent decades, development economists have adopted this rigorous impact evaluation methodology to test interventions in many sectors. This presentation will provide both a background on J-PAL as well as share results and policy lessons distilled from over 150 health evaluations and how our affiliates' research has led to policy scale-ups that have reached over 300 million people around the world.
Kiven Esvelt, MIT
Technologies for community-driven ecological engineering
Technologies capable of altering the shared environment should be developed in the open with potentially affected communities. We're working with the citizens of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to heritably immunize the mice that infect most ticks with Lyme disease. In parallel, we're working to develop 'daisy drive' systems that only edit organisms within political boundaries. Together, we hope to create the social and technological solutions for shared environmental stewardship.
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