Poverty Research From Every Angle, Episode, 3: Disease-Poverty Traps

Episode Topic: Disease-Poverty Traps Notre Dame biologist Professor Jason Rohr takes us to West Africa to confront one of humankind’s most insidious feedback loops: the “disease-poverty trap.” In these environments, systemic poverty actively fuels the spread of disease, while chronic illness relentlessly deepens economic hardship. His research perfectly illustrates how looking at poverty from every angle–including the biological–is vital to breaking the complex webs of inequality. Fea...