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The global burden of ill-health is borne mostly by people in developing countries.
The diseases responsible for a large proportion of this ill-health are environmentally mediated.
Nearly half of the world continues to cook with solid fuels.
In total, 2.7% of disability adjusted life years worldwide are attributable to indoor smoke.
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Welcome
A unique, interdisciplinary, campuswide program designed to
help people in developing countries achieve health, reach a reasonable level of well-being, and stabilize populations. These objectives - while at the same time protecting the local, community, and global environments - are among the most compelling and complicated challenges facing the world community.
"The objective of the HED program is to bring an international group of students together to learn how to meet this important set of challenges."
Dr. Kirk R. Smith
HED Director
Dr. Michael Bates
Associate HED Director
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