O FORTUNA! Clara Barbier Serrano - the 2020 Bocelli-Jameel scholar at Royal College of Music - sings the soprano role in Carmina Burana tonight at Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, with the Un Air de famille choir

تتقدّم مؤسسة #مجتمع_جميل_السعودية بأطيب التهاني بمناسبة #عيد_الفطر المبارك، وتتمنى لكم عيداً سعيداً وأوقاتاً يلمؤها الفرح والسلام.

Stopping the climate crisis requires investment. Cities 1.5 hears from Realdania and Community Jameel - two philanthropic organisations whose funding is helping chart a path to create greener urban futures.
🎧 Listen now c40.me/3TJHs7W
Produced by University of Toronto Press

🎙️ Listen to our very own Cléa Daridan on the C40 Cities podcast 'Cities 1.5' highlighting the recently-launched Jameel C40 Urban Planning Climate Labs in Amman, Jordan, and Chennai, India.

Tune in here: link.chtbl.com/6vb-W8X2

Professor Amy Finkelstein, a J-PAL affiliated professor, spoke to The New York Times about how paying off people's medical debt has less of an impact on their lives than might be expected.

Read the article here: nytimes.com/2024/04/08/sci…

تقديم الرعاية المنقذة للحياة للأمهات والأطفال الذين تم إجلاؤهم من غزة، يتلقى المستجيبون الأوائل المصريون تدريبًا من منظمة أنقذوا الأطفال بدعم من مجتمع جميل.

🇵🇸 To deliver life-saving care to pregnant mothers, newborn babies and wounded children evacuated from Gaza, Save the Children EG is training Egyptian first responders – with support from Community Jameel.

Professor David Autor – MIT economist, 'tech contrarian' and J-PAL affiliated professor – has been featured in the New York Times in an article by Steve Lohr on the impact of AI on the workforce.

Read the article here: nytimes.com/2024/04/01/bus…

Our new impact collaboration aims to better tailor early warning systems to community needs in Ethiopia and Kenya #earlyaction #earlywarning

With Data for Children Collaborative, Urban Foresight, iShamba, Maanshiil Consult, Omeva Consulting and @fao

jameelobservatory.org/ews_collaborat…

Congratulations to Professor Regina Barzilay, faculty lead for AI at the MIT Jameel Clinic, on being selected in the Boston Magazine list of 10 important humans behind Boston's AI revolution.

Check out the list in full: bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/2…

The Jameel C40 Urban Planning Climate Lab in Chennai is helping city leadership implement climate-responsive plans to tackle extreme heat, flooding, air pollution and more.

A collaboration by C40 Cities, Community Jameel and CMDA Chennai, with World Bank and J-PAL.

Arts & youth mental health project awarded record £2.5M UKRI grant. Led by Edge Hill University in collaboration with Jameel Arts & Health Lab and @who, Arts4Us will bring arts therapies together in one digital platform, to support young people.
Read more: edgehill.ac.uk/research/healt…

The 2024 Newsweek top-10 best hospitals in the world features Sybil, an AI tool for predicting cancer 6 years ahead that was developed by the MIT Jameel Clinic (MIT Jameel Clinic for AI & Health) and Mass General Hospital (which placed 5th in the ranking)

We are humbled to be mentioned alongside Sawiris Foundation For Social Development, AGF and others in Belal Nawar's article on Arab philanthropy for Egyptian Streets. egyptianstreets.com/2024/03/26/phi…

Watch Jameel Arts & Health Lab co-director Christopher Bailey explain how Johnny Cash’s music is helping dementia patients in Ireland reconnect to their memories and their loved ones.

Congratulations Vinod Vaikuntanathan – professor, cryptographer and MIT Jameel Clinic principal investigator – on being awarded a prestigious MacVicar Faculty Fellowship for his exceptional teaching of undergraduate students at MIT.

Private sector actors have increasingly committed to creating positive social & environmental impact. Looking ahead, J-PAL aims to continue partnering with such actors to test innovative environmental & social efforts & ensure meaningful impact: j-p.al/1q8

🐪 Join Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action fellow Tahira S. Mohamed speaking with Natasha Maru about camel-milk marketing and its impact on pastoralists in a free online seminar.

📆 21 March, 14h-15h30 Nairobi time

🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/4afJxiN

🇿🇦 The Water, Air and Energy Lab has been launched in Cape Town with mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, J-PAL co-founders and Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and our associate director Uzma Sulaiman. The lab will serve 5m Capetonians. communityjameel.org/post/j-pal-afr…

New Water, Air, and Energy Lab to improve access to Capetonians

The lab, launched by J-PAL Africa, the City of Cape Town and Community Jameel, will partner with local policymakers and researchers to generate evidence-based solutions.

See: bit.ly/3PmS8bm

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