Dr. Michael Omidi is an advocate for children’s health, and works for the eradication of global poverty. In the following discussion, he explains how to detect malnutrition in adults and children. You don’t have to be a physician to know what malnutrition looks like and how to detect
Dr. Michael Omidi discusses recent advances in global efforts to fight poverty. The world’s neediest areas have seen a decrease in poverty during the past 20 years. In fact, the number of very poor citizens in the world have decreased by almost 50 percent in those two decades, a
Lant Pritchett, Harvard professor and former World Bank economist, recently reviewed common misconceptions about poverty during the Wheatley International Affairs Conference. Julian Omidi reviews how this speech may change your views on poverty. After receiving his Ph. D. in Economics