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Social Medicine – An Epistemic Shift 13 Feb 2013 | 11:35 am
Social Medicine, Structural Violence The difficulty of beginning an essay with the definition of social medicine is precisely because no such definition exists. Social medicine has taken many forms ...
Contextual Technology 30 Jun 2012 | 07:22 am
The latest technology for the developing world Everyday we’re presented with the newest technology that claims to better the lives of the poor. A new filtration system that can eliminate water-borne b...
Summer Updates and More 31 May 2012 | 06:21 am
I’ve been very bad with the whole blogging thing, but hopefully I’ll be better with more time during the summer. So…what have I been up to? Too be broad – I’m looking at (1) mHealth (2) socioeconomic...
Build something people Need, not Want 28 Nov 2011 | 04:27 pm
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.” – Albert Einstein Personally, I’d remove the ‘only’ at the beginning because no one really has the right to judge life worth, but other than that...
Model the Cell? A Cell API 13 Oct 2011 | 05:04 pm
I have been thinking of a way to programatically model the human cell for a while now and my thoughts were recently reignited after I read this post. At a very basic level, I imagine an interface whe...
Crowdsource Public Health Complaints? 9 Oct 2011 | 05:03 pm
Haven’t been blogging much at all – I have a lot of ideas in public health and biotech that I’d like to document. Most of them probably frivolous, but if telling people about your ideas is half the ba...
Columbia University app: Next Steps 22 Aug 2011 | 05:17 am
I’m not exactly sure for whom I’m writing or why I’m writing for that matter – but I feel I should have a blog to archive my thoughts and projects. As of late I’ve been working on the Columbia Univers...
