Danice Brown Guzmán, associate director, evidence & learning at the Pulte Institute, has co-authored a paper, published in Reproductive Health, that assesses women’s user experiences and perceptions of quality of care during childbirth in Kenya.…
Over the next month, the Pulte Institute for Global Development within the Keough School of Global Affairs, and its partners will be working on an assessment looking at the market share, key characteristics, sustainability, quality, and accessibility of Low-Cost Private Schools (LCPS) in northern Ghana. This assessment is supported through the Institute’s USAID-funded Supporting Holistic & Actionable Research in Education…
The Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2021 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning June 21, the University of Notre Dame will virtually engage 25 of Africa's bright, emerging business leaders for a six-week Leadership Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
In a recent interview with the National Catholic Register, Tom Hare, senior technical associate at the Pulte Institute for Global Development offers thoughts regarding the new administration’s plan to address migration from Central America’s Northern Triangle northward to the US-Mexico border.…
A recent article for BRAC USA, co-authored by Ray Offenheiser, William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, discusses the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic and the need to address community health workers on the front lines as heroes.…
"The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right." — Dr. Paul Farmer
The world who knew Paul Farmer through his work, his writing, and Partners in Health, the organization he created, have been mourning the news of his loss over the past week. He was of course a doctor but he was also an anthropologist and ethicist. As a doctor, he wanted to heal but he wanted to do so smartly and sustainably. As an anthropologist, he wanted to understand the historical, economic, political and cultural context of disease. And as an applied ethicist, he wanted to understand why preventable disease was allowed to ravage communities of the poor. For him medicine was a moral calling that moved him to seek out the most morally compelling health challenges in the most difficult contexts. …
In a recent WFYI Indianapolis interview, Paul Perrin, evidence and learning director at the Pulte Institute for Global Development, offers insight regarding the global disparity in access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
"Where do you administer these vaccines? Is it in the health system? Well, what if they're people in remote areas? How do they present to the health system? And so it's not just as simple as saying, we're going to send vials overseas, and people will be vaccinated. There’s a whole series of steps that need to happen.”…
The Pulte Institute Student Fellowship program supported five students in a three-week virtual engagement with Social Entrepreneurship Corps and Centro Explorativo in Guatemala.
Everspring Inc., a leading provider of education technology and services to universities seeking to build or expand their online capabilities, has announced a partnership with the University of Notre Dame to build a series of professional education courses for the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs…
Social entrepreneurship and innovation experts from the Pulte Institute and the McKenna Center will embark on a virtual teaching series examining social entrepreneurship and its relationship with poverty and the private sector.
In a recent Baltimore Sun op-ed, Ray Offenheiser, William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, highlights the need for democratic change in the White House.
Dr. Paul Perrin, Director of Evidence and Learning at the Pulte Institute, has co-authored a United States Institute of Peace report which focuses on the implementation of the Global Fragility Act.
With USAID’s support, Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Haiti and Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), in partnership with the Pulte Institute for Global Development, have begun work on Strong Beginnings: Leveraging the home, school and church to develop the whole child in Haiti.
Faculty and staff from across the University of Notre Dame work together to deliver alternative, virtual solutions for USAID's Rule of Law and Culture of Integrity in Paraguay program.
A new book, Honduras: Economic, Political and Social Issues, includes a chapter co-authored by Tom Hare, Senior Technical Associate with the Pulte Institute for Global Development.
Michael Morris recently gave a talk at the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Lekgotla virtual conference that focused on new ways of thinking about concepts as a way of finding solutions to world problems.
Ray Offenheiser, William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, was recently elected Chair of the Board of BRAC USA.
A group of Notre Dame researchers have played a key role in developing MERL Tech’s State of the Field Series, which was launched in July 2020.
The Pulte Institute for Global Development — together with the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) and its Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child — will lead a five-year program to advance U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) learning priorities in the global education sector.