Lauren Carruth

Lauren Carruth

Lauren Carruth is a medical anthropologist specializing in humanitarian assistance, global health, food security, refugees, and the Horn of Africa. Most of her continuing ethnographic work focuses on the lasting social and health system effects of episodic humanitarian interventions in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

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Opinion: The hustle for data: Side gigs that change science, policies, and lives

Opinion: The hustle for data: Side gigs that change science, policies, and lives

almost 8 years ago // Data for development

The health of people around the world depends on the knowledge and data that researchers gather about diseases, economies, living conditions, and the quality and availability of medical care. Yet in many of the world's least-developed countries, the expertise and hard work of local staffers — the people tasked with collecting and reporting these data — remain invisible and undercompensated.