The Global Underdevelopment Action Fund has provided over 30 seed grants intended to jumpstart early-stage multidisciplinary research projects tackling persistent problems of global underdevelopment. The Action Fund projects range across disciplines, focusing primarily on problems in developing and transitioning societies. Many of the projects have a health dimension, reflecting the degree to which poor health outcomes mirror a country's development status.
As Stanford's primary forum for multidisciplinary research on international issues, FSI actively promotes research collaborations that transcend traditional academic boundaries to influence public policy nationally and internationally. FSI's Action Fund was established to jump-start innovative, early-stage projects related to global underdevelopment, with the goal of creating new and promising areas of self-sustaining research at FSI and of building a community of scholars who are interested in those questions. Strong projects are collaborative, outcomes-oriented, policy relevant, and provide training for graduate and undergraduate students.
Awardees present their research methods and early stage results during the Action Fund Friday seminar series.
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Events
Crime, Violence and Governance in Latin America: Sharing Data and Building a Web-Based Research Network to Expand Knowledge
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Governance and Public Goods in Indigenous Mexico
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Can Mobile Phones Improve Clean Water Access in Slums?
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Examining Barriers to the Commercialization of Medical Technology in India
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Teaming Up to Learn How to Overcome Anemia: Nutritional Education and Mobile Messaging Design for Household Engagement
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Controlling Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in North Korea and China: An Agenda for a New Foreign Policy
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Global Health Financing: Identifying Key Drivers of U.S. Development Assistance by Country
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)
Use of Improved Biomass Stoves in Karnataka and Maharashtra States, India: Understanding Factors Affecting Widespread Adoption
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific)