Professors Beyond Borders





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	:: Professors Beyond Borders is an action network of academics and professionals willing to engage with real-world problems that impact quality of life in diverse communities. This entails problem-based knowledge creation, innovation in context, and mapping of expertise to community needs and ground realities.

our mission
Professors Beyond Borders are dedicated to public health and a secure global village for all. We offer academics of our global community the ability to organize their individual experiences and expertise into a greater effort wherever there is a recognized need and workable problem set.

developing our vision
We provide an easily accessible forum that can be approached by diverse communities in need of assistance on specific issues, while being culturally sensitive to specific problems faced by diverse communities and economically disadvantaged or remote areas. Our goal is to enhance the capacity of communities to organize themselves to solve specific problems with assistance from experts by disseminating knowledge of tools, techniques, technologies and resources available for specific development needs and tasks.

mobilizing areas of expertise for sustainable development

The work of one can impact many. Therefore, our goal is to mobilize experts to assist the developing world in areas of sustainable development. We engage with real-world problems that impact quality of life in diverse communities in developing countries. This includes problem-based knowledge creation, innovation in context; and mapping of expertise to community needs and ground realities.

Our focus is based on the concept that water plays a central focus in the global community. These are some areas of concentration:

SUSTAINABILITY

agriculture
aquaculture
environmental sustainability
environmental planning
energy systems design

INFRASTRUCTURE

architecture
social entrepreneurship
educational infrastructure
microfinance
instiutional development

COMMUNITY

drinking water
public health policy
sanitation
community development
health systems development

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