Striving to improve human health and well-being.
Building a Healthier Tomorrow, Together.
– Our Belief : Storytelling –
Perhaps one of the most valuable tools we have at our disposal is storytelling. Data without a story are just numbers. Add a compelling narrative and people will listen- not only people in the communities with which we work, but also our colleagues and others that stand to benefit from our collective efforts.
What we do:
Our job is to bring together all the resources needed to address a problem. Recognizing the centrality of a strong foundation in traditional disciplinary studies, we see the need to expand past the still ‘siloed’ multidisciplinary approaches.
Our Vision:
PlanetLab prides itself on being a trans-disciplinary group. Identifying the complex suite of tools needed to solve wicked problems is a skill in itself.
We value building upon the interdisciplinary approaches where academic disciplines work in concert to learn more about a problem to embrace a trans-disciplinary model where extra-academic knowledge from everyday people makes for a more powerful tool to address and solve problems that impact communities. The cornerstone of the approach involves recognizing that no one person can know everything, and it is critical to put our egos aside to acknowledge and seek out expertise when needed.
Our Team:
A large number of members in PlanetLab are PhD students. This group constitutes the core of the team providing leadership in thought through emergent wisdom and experience.
Our Masters students provide pragmatic problem-solving approaches, and the undergraduates engage by working on a range of projects. Each individual contributes, utilizing their own experiences, skill sets and knowledges, and it is incumbent upon us to recognize and respect all perspectives.
