Tag: Rwanda

  • Nation & World

    Women lead Rwanda’s renaissance

    A quarter-century after genocide killed as many as a million Rwandans, the country’s women are leading its renaissance.

    5 minutes
    five women speaking on a panel
  • Nation & World

    10 dental grads give a nation something to smile about

    Rwanda has a population of more than 12 million people and fewer than 40 registered dentists. This past fall, 10 graduates with a bachelor’s degrees in dental surgery joined their ranks, thanks in part to Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

    6 minutes
    University of Rwanda dental students graduating
  • Nation & World

    MOOCs on the move

    As MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital via HarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard professors partner in unique approach

    The first-of-its-kind strategy is credited for curing at least five of 10 children at a rural Rwandan hospital; two others are in remission while receiving chemotherapy, and three children have died. The long-distance team approach was designed by Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine Sara Stulac, director of pediatrics for Partners In Health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fighting poverty, by design

    A young Harvard architect, with an eye to other cultures, challenges his profession to use design to end poverty and spur social justice.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gram gives peace a chance

    In the face of acts of profound violence — including the murder of her brother — Danielle Gram ’11 has chosen to make peace her life’s work.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The need for men to back women

    A two-day conference on gender examined various dimensions to empowering the lives of women in developing nations.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Paul Farmer appointed University Professor

    Harvard names humanitarian leader Paul Farmer a University Professor, awarding him its highest faculty honor.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Second opinions, anywhere

    Rwanda has 10 million people, but no cancer specialists. A recent collaboration between a Waltham medical information company and a Harvard University research institute aims to reduce such professional isolation – and to learn from the medical knowledge and resourcefulness of doctors in the developing world.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Eastern Congo nexus for many conflicts

    Unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) eastern border region stems both from what the nation has and from what it lacks.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Local partners critical to HHI’s work

    Denis Mukwege has his hands full. So do Justin Kabanga and Maria Bard. The three each have leadership roles in nonprofits engaged in meeting the needs of people caught up in the fighting along the Rwandan border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Powerful documentary on genocide screened at Kennedy School

    Those who loudly refused to let the world turn a blind eye or feign helplessness as genocides ravaged millions of lives this century and last are sometimes dubbed “screamers.” The Harvard community got an earful Monday evening (Feb. 5) from an unlikely quartet of modern screamers – the chart-topping, earsplitting heavy metal band System of…

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