Dr. Stephen Luby, MD, director of Global Health Research at CIGH, and Jenna Forsyth, PhD, interdisciplinary environmental health scientist, initiated Project Unleaded to identify and eliminate major sources of lead poisoning worldwide. Project Unleaded is a project of the Center for Human and Planetary Health, which is based at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and supported in partnership with the Center for Innovation in Global Health. Since Luby first began investigating lead exposure in Bangladesh in 2013 — with Forsyth joining the project as a PhD student in 2014 — the two have since developed interdisciplinary research solutions that support a lead-free world. Learn more Luby and Forsyth’s work, below.

Interested in learning more? Join the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and Stanford Center for Human and Planetary Health for a Global Health Winter Research Spotlight on March 2, 2026, featuring Forsyth, who will present her research on reducing lead exposure worldwide.