The Adoption Gap: Design, Development and Diffusion of Household Energy Technologies
Over half of the world cooks its meals on unimproved cookstoves. Resulting emissions are responsible for an estimated 4 million deaths from respiratory ailments annually and are a significant contributor to global warming. Historic efforts to promote the use of cleaner and more efficient stoves have been largely unsuccessful. The workshop, “the Adoption Gap: Design, Development and Diffusion of Household Energy Technologies,” brings together experts in marketing, communications and other realms necessary to solve this obstinate environmental and human health challenge.
Featured Speakers:
Corinne Hart – Manager, Gender and Markets, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Douglas Barnes – President, Energy for Development
Suzanne Chew – Alliance Director, Nexus-Carbon for Development
Helen Petach – Biomedical Research Advisor, USAID Bureau for Global Health;
Alix Zwane – CEO, Evidence Action
Ethan Kay – Managing Director of Emerging Markets, Biolite
Adam Ross – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Raj Pannu – Director of Global Public Health, McCann Health
Rob Bailis – Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Mushfiq Mobarak – Professor, Yale School of Management University
Rema Hanna – Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Workshop Goals and Projected Outcomes Include:
• Create dialogue between social and behavioral science researchers with public health experts and engineers to identify opportunities and barriers for the dissemination of HAP-reducing technologies;
• Articulate complementary and competing relationships within varying models of household technology diffusion;
• Generate a consensus statement, which identifies a research agenda for reducing HAP as well as recommendations for fruitful collaboration across the disciplines and sectors committed to its reduction.
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Date:
Friday, March 28, 2014
9:00am – 5:00pm
Reception to follow
Venue:
3rd floor, Kroon Hall
195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Organizers:
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale School of Management
Sponsor:
Yale Climate and Energy Institute