Johannah Brady, Sanchay Gupta, Solveij Praxis, Noam Rosenthal, Lauren Wedekind, Emily Witt, Beatriz Magaloni, Ph.D., Paul Wise, M.D., M.P.H.   ABSTRACT From June 15-30, 2014, a group of Stanford field research students traveled to San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala as with Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies affiliated professors and Bay Area pediatricians through the Institute’s Children in Crisis program. During those two weeks, under the leadership … Continue reading Investigating Social Determinants of Health in the Rural Highlands of Guatemala

Jake Sonnenberg DDT has humble origins for a chemical that would eventually reach much of the world. First discovered in 1873 by a German chemistry student named Othmar Zeidler, the compound did not receive serious attention until a 37-year-old chemist named Paul Herman Muller synthesized it again in 1936. Muller developed the chemical while trying to identify the particular toxic ingredient in two other insecticides … Continue reading Shoot to Kill: Control and Controversy in the History of DDT Science