A PhD student at Arizona State University who studies how nonprofits can collaborate to improve people’s health is literally taking his expertise to the field.

Rodney Machokoto, a doctoral student in the School of Community Resources and Development, is working in two community gardens to help people learn how to grow and distribute nutritious food.

“My PhD focuses on how nonprofits can work together to transform health, and part of what I’m studying is trying to do something practical,” he said.

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Few times in history have seen a more dire need to find solutions to a global societal crisis than the present.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically raised a challenge to fast-track discovery and implement innovations to avert further tragic consequences of the disease, said Anthony Kuhn, a lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.

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