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EPFL’s EssentialTech Centre has reinforced its team with an internationally recognized leader in humanitarianism, development and peace.

By Dr. Michel Rochat, SmartPPE Project Manager  On #EpidemicPreparednessDay, I’d like to share a little about what we do to help prepare for epidemics. Scientists, medical professionals and public health authorities don't have crystal balls and they don't have...

Just one or two sessions of dialysis is often all it takes to save the life of someone suffering from acute kidney injury. Yet a 2016 review study published in the Lancet Global Health estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, 86% of adults and 73% of children die when in need of short-term dialysis, due to lack of access.

Just one or two sessions of dialysis is often all it takes to save the life of someone suffering from acute kidney injury. Yet a 2016 review study published in the Lancet Global Health estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, 86% of adults and 73% of children die when in need of short-term dialysis, due to lack of access.

I have one of those titles – Head of the PeaceTech division – that leads to the interesting question, “Uh, what’s that?” What better time than on the occasion of UN International Day of Peace, September 21, to answer this?