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Kevin Kochersberger and Ashley Taylor on Humanitarian Engineering

Kevin Kochersberger and Ashley Taylor on public health, justice, and partnering with communities in Malawi

Recorded February 5, 2021

About this episode

What does it take to start a public health collaboration with partners in Malawi, building aircraft and training pilots to deliver medicine to rural communities in a UNICEF humanitarian drone flight corridor? In this episode, we are joined by Professor Kevin Kochersberger and Dr. Ashley Taylor. They describe working with an international, interdisciplinary team and sustaining a project over many years that also underlines the value of deep listening and solidarity for sustaining global engineering projects.

Episode Credits

Recorded February 2021 with host Andy Morikawa, Rob Emmett, and Nicole Sanderlin. Co-produced by the Academy for Global Engineering and the Institute for Policy and Governance.

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