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Jun 21, 2016
This graphic appears in USAID's 2016 Acting on the Call Report. “This is the story of my life, and it begins the same as everyone else's,” says the narrator of “To Keep a Promise.” It's sweeping and intimate all at once, because it tells the human
Jun 13, 2016
A first photo of my hours-old niece, who joined the world in April 2013.    “Aunt Hopey, stand UP!” commands my three-year-old niece from atop her parents' bed, pulling me up into her imaginary kingdom (with surprising force, I might add!) and
Jun 08, 2016
His Excellency Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of the Republic of Mali, at the Opening Ceremony of the 10th African Rotavirus Symposium. Photo credit: Mama Traoré and Kamory Diallo.
May 24, 2016
A proud new mother in India cradles her newborn. Photo credit: Richard Franco.  
May 17, 2016
I am often asked why I chose sanitation as a focus area and what makes the India Sanitation Coalition (ISC) different.
May 09, 2016
A scientist has a mandate: objective, data-driven fact-finding; research with an open mind and a solid protocol. But a scientist is more, too. Behind the standards of practice and quality control checks are life experiences, a full range of emotions
May 05, 2016
Emily and Samyuktha at their last Broken Toilets face-to-face meeting in Hong Kong, 2015.
View from Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
Apr 20, 2016
Climate change poses both threats and opportunities for the future of human sanitation, nutrition, and diarrheal disease.
Apr 12, 2016
Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that can lead to rapid dehydration and death if not immediately and correctly treated. While the global burden of cholera is not precisely known, estimates show that there are more than 2 million cases per year