Luby Lab

Welcome to the Luby Lab! Our mission is to generate knowledge to support a healthy future for people and the planet.

What We Do

The Luby Lab is a public health research laboratory that seeks strategic knowledge to improve health in communities in low- and middle-income countries globally. Our approach uses a framework outlining the stages of research that work progressively towards generating impact on important global health problems at scale. The Luby Lab is working to advance solutions across a broad array of public health problems including reducing air pollution from brick manufacturing in Bangladesh, reducing exposure to lead, developing a business model to capture waste methane and convert it to a protein supplement to support aquaculture, and multiple projects aimed at reducing pandemic risk.

New Book Release: Theories of Change in Global Health

Theories of Change in Global Health
By Stephen Luby and Sabina Faiz Rashid · Oxford University Press

Global health interventions aim to improve health in communities. Each rests on a theory of change that addresses a constraint within the complex system shaping global health. Drawing on fifteen common theories, case studies, and examples across contexts, Luby and Rashid develop a framework for understanding when different approaches are likely to succeed—and when they are predisposed to fail.

Key Takeaways

The book provides critical guidance on choosing the most promising theories of change and encourages stakeholders to consider a broader range of possible interventions.
Fifteen theories of change, illustrated through real case studies, give researchers and funders a shared framework instead of borrowed intuition from a single discipline.

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