Blog

Published December 18, 2016

Thank you so much for your steadfast support throughout 2016. It has been an incredible year for BNID. With your imagination, commitment, and enthusiasm, together we’ve reached new milestones.

Published November 20, 2016

PIVOT started in collaboration with PIH as a mission partner doing a health system strengthening project in Ranomafana, Madagascar.

Published November 6, 2016

At the moment, I am a principal investigator on a new project that we are involved in here at Brandeis and am a lead investigator at the recently established research center here at the Heller School at Brandeis called the Center for Global Development and Sustainability.

Published September 28, 2016

Professor Noora Lori is a graduate professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies. Vicky Kelberer is a master’s candidate at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and a BNID Board member.  

Published August 29, 2016

We would like to announce some exciting upcoming events that BNID will be hosting and co-sponsoring over the next few weeks. It is our goal going forward to host or co-sponsor more events to increase BNID membership engagement with the local international development community. Please consider attending one (or all) of these upcoming events.

Published August 15, 2016

I got involved at Gardens for Health through BNID; I saw a featured listing on the newsletter. The job seemed perfect; it was a crossroads of all the things I was passionate about: global health, sustainable agriculture, and East Africa. I thought ‘this is the place I want to be’.

Published July 17, 2016

I grew up with a deep sense of unfairness with how the world works. I noticed and cared about things like poverty from a very early age. As an undergrad, I knew I liked the topics of health and different cultures, but I didn’t know I could make a career in either. One day, I went to the student association for pre-health professionals at CU Boulder.

Published June 25, 2016

I come from a small town in Massachusetts. I had never planned on doing international work. I became interested in different cultures and languages while I was in college at UMass Amherst.

Published May 10, 2016

MIT D-Lab has many different arms more than 20 MIT courses, research groups, and global programs including international development design summits, trainings, and other fieldwork.

Published April 24, 2016

Luwam Dirar, originally from Eritrea, is a Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University and BNID Board member.