Tag: Gregg Greenough

  • Nation & World

    Lessons of a temporary city

    The Maha Kumbh Mela, India’s massive gathering of Hindu pilgrims, ended in March. But for Harvard researchers across disciplines, the festival and the tent city it spawned continue to yield lessons in everything from big data to urban planning.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tracking disease in a tent city

    At India’s Kumbh Mela, the largest temporary city in the world, public health researchers from Harvard and beyond staged a small but nimble operation to follow health measures and disease outbreaks. The results will hold lessons not just for future Harvard students, but for urban health planners in India and elsewhere.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Haitian apocalypse

    A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.

    7 minutes