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Harnessing youth to fight the obesity epidemic
D’Arcy Williams [2019] has just been appointed CEO of Bite Back, a UK-based charity campaigning to ensure that every young person has access to healthy and nutritious food. After leaving […]
How do we address the challenges of an ageing world?
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars debate the question “How do we address the challenges of an ageing world?” in the final episode of the second series of our podcast, So, now […]
Health impact: Gates Cambridge at 25
Health is a huge focus of many Gates Cambridge Scholars, whether directly for those studying medical-related subjects or access to health services, or indirectly as there are so many multi-layered […]
Report investigates barriers to Bangladeshi and Pakistani women’s work
Bangladeshi and Pakistani women in London face intersecting barriers to finding good work, including racism, religious and gender discrimination and limited workplace flexibility – and cultural norms, while they may […]
How uncertainty affects our mental health
Friederike Hedley [2024] is researching the impact of uncertainty on cognitive and neural processing, with a focus on mental health problems and the developing brain. She recently published two journal […]
Learning from the past to make better buildings for the future
Michael Salka is interested in pushing the boundaries of architecture, but also in learning from past knowledge about bio-based building materials and how they adapt to different conditions. He began […]
New study sets out roadmap to accelerate nature-based climate solutions
Efforts to slow the climate crisis have long sought to harness nature, often through carbon “offsets”, aimed at bolstering forests, wetlands and agriculture, but have generally had only marginal success […]
Is gender equality going backwards?
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars debated whether gender equality is going backwards in the seventh episode of the current series of the ‘So Now What’ podcast. Reetika Subramanian [2019], William McInerney […]
Society impact: Gates Cambridge at 25
When it comes to impact on society, Gates Cambridge Scholars have been improving the lives of others in many different ways, from work on social inclusion and social enterprise and […]
How birds adapt to human-modified environments
What helps birds adapt to human-modified environments and can they be trained to do so? While experts have talked about the importance of behavioural flexibility for some time, as expressed […]
