--- --- # Engineers Can Improve Healthcare for Refugees by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 21, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can engineers improve health care for refugees?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biomedical-engineering-refugee-crisis-by-muhammad-hamid-zaman-2017-08) By Muhammad Hamid Zaman at _Project Syndicate_ **2\.** [**Google is helping track hate crimes with machine learning.**](https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/google-documenting-hate-news-index-propublica/) By Taylor Hatmaker at _TechCrunch_ **3\.** [**The world is getting hungrier. A global fish war might be the result.**](https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-08/global-fish-war-coming) By Jay Caputo at the _U.S. Naval Institute_ **4\.** [**How free eyeglasses are boosting test scores in Baltimore.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/17/how-free-eyeglasses-are-boosting-test-scores-in-baltimore-215501) By Sarah Gamard in _Politico Magazine_ **5\.** [**We are nowhere close to the limits of athletic performance.**](http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/we-are-nowhere-close-to-the-limits-of-athletic-performance-rp) By Stephen Hsu in _Nautilus_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Engineers Can Improve Healthcare for Refugees ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4908645/engineers-can-improve-healthcare-for-refugees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4908645/engineers-can-improve-healthcare-for-refugees/"},"headline":"Engineers Can Improve Healthcare for Refugees","datePublished":"2017-08-21T16:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:33.969Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4908645/engineers-can-improve-healthcare-for-refugees/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Refugees","Hunger","hate crimes","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4908645/engineers-can-improve-healthcare-for-refugees/","name":"Engineers Can Improve Healthcare for Refugees"}}]}] ```