Meet Rajarshi Mandal, the 16-year-old Lexington student whose malaria model showed the same mosquito-net supply could prevent twice as many infections; he won $50,000
- For Mandal, the idea began with footage showing fishermen using donated mosquito nets as fishing material because the mesh was available when conventional fishing equipment was not.
- At 16, Rajarshi Mandal is already tackling a problem that has challenged public-health systems for decades: how to make limited malaria-prevention resources go further.
- The Lexington High School student built a mathematical model designed to determine where insecticide-treated mosquito nets could have the greatest impact, and his work earned him a $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship, states an online report by the
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- For Mandal, the idea began with footage showing fishermen using donated mosquito nets as fishing material because the mesh was available when conventional fishing equipment was not.
- At 16, Rajarshi Mandal is already tackling a problem that has challenged public-health systems for decades: how to make limited malaria-prevention resources go further.
- The Lexington High School student built a mathematical model designed to determine where insecticide-treated mosquito nets could have the greatest impact, and his work earned him a $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship, states an online report by the
Sources: Times of India