Organization
RTI International
Mission
Mission: To improve the human condition. RTI supports many related activities, including developing robust sensors for cookstove smoke exposures at the personal level, and a new thermoelectric insert that reduces cookstove emissions by 85%.
Other Organization Type
Research Institute
Organizational Expertise
Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Health
Other Organizational Expertise
Exposure analysis, epidemiology, global health program implementation, biomass and thermoelectric technologies, capacity building in developing and transitional countries and economies;Exposure measurement, emissions characterization, thermoelectrics epidemiology, maternal/child health, women's empowerment
Technologies & Fuels
Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.)
Other Technologies Fuels
Biomass fuel saving, energy policy
Clean Cooking Activities
RTI is an independent nonprofit research institute that provides expertise to governments and NGOs in more than 40 countries. Primary relevant skills for cookstove programs include cohort epidemiologic and exposure studies and thermoelectrics R&D.
Partnership
RTI seeks to partner in studies of technology enhancements and applications, as well as large-scale health and interventional studies.
Regions Operating In
East Asia and Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Address
3040 Cornwallis
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-0155
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Mr. Patrick Gibbons
Title:
Email: pgibbons@rti.org
Phone: 919-541-6136
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