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Cultivating partnerships between health care practitioners and researchers

This year’s Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) workshop brought together researchers and health care practitioners to strengthen their working knowledge of randomized evaluations and lay a foundation for developing strong research partnerships.

Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an educational approach to help primary school students who have fallen behind to catch up by targeting instruction to their current learning level. J-PAL Europe and partner organizations are currently developing a pilot of this approach in Côte d’Ivoire.

Affiliate spotlight: Christopher Neilson on using technology to close information gaps

In our interview with Christopher Neilson (Princeton University), he describes his research interest in applications of technology to close information gaps to reduce poverty. “I think in the future, we will see artificial intelligence ‘personal assistants’ helping humans make better choices... I am...