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Global Development & Health
Data science for global impact. NLT helps international institutions turn data into development outcomes — from mapping economic activity by nighttime lights to forecasting disease outbreaks before they spread. We’ve delivered for the World Bank, the UN, UNICEF, and Wellcome-funded programs across many countries and five continents.
Global Health Proof
The record →DIRE (nltIMPACT-GlobalHealth)
dengue & malaria forecasting on nltIMPACT with UC San Diego; UNICEF & university research partnership; Wellcome Trust funding; ESA primary research
Capabilities
How we help
The same interdisciplinary bench that delivers for federal mission owners, applied to the questions international institutions ask.
Nighttime-lights & economic-activity mapping
AI/ML methods that turn satellite nighttime-lights imagery into indicators of urbanization, economic activity, and development progress — at national and sub-national scale.
Predictive health intelligence
Outbreak-risk forecasting that gives public-health institutions and their partners an earlier signal on where disease is likely to spread next.
Geospatial analytics for development
Spatial analysis and remote sensing applied to the questions development institutions ask — infrastructure, climate resilience, conflict-affected regions, agriculture.
Data engineering for international institutions
Production data pipelines and cloud platforms built to the standards multilateral and UN-system institutions require for dissemination and reuse.
Impact evaluation & research
Geospatial impact-evaluation methods and applied research, developed with and for the evaluation community that international development runs on.
Global Health & Development
Flagship
A sample of the global development and health work behind this page — the same delivery discipline we bring to federal mission systems.
DIRE (nltIMPACT-GlobalHealth)
Predictive health intelligencePredictive health intelligence that forecasts dengue and malaria outbreak risk. Built on nltIMPACT with UC San Diego, in user and research partnership with UNICEF and universities, funded by the Wellcome Trust, and operationalizing primary research from the European Space Agency.
World Bank — Light Every Night
Nighttime-lights archiveContributing to the World Bank's Light Every Night nighttime-lights archive — AI/ML methods that turn satellite imagery into indicators of urbanization, economic activity, and development progress, in use across many countries and five continents.
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The same rigor we bring to mission-critical federal systems — applied to international development and global health outcomes.
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Work With NLT in Global Development & Health
Talk to the NLT team about your specific need. Federal-grade engineering, integrated delivery, decades of sector experience.