Dengue is an old global public health threat that lashes out stubbornly through cycles in tropical countries. It gives truce for a few years and then comes back stronger in specific seasons. 2023, for example, is one of those periods when this mosquito-borne disease has been unleashed in Colombia.

Wearable robotic devices to increase people’s strength or improve the quality of life of workers and patients? Yeah, and it is not science fiction. Researchers from the Universidad del Rosario are pioneers in this field of research that already shows its first results in real life.

In our territory there is a perfect storm for this disease: circulation of more aggressive varieties of the microorganism and population with genetic factors that can lead to a more negative response are part of the formula. A study from the Universidad del Rosario reviews how the relationship between the parasite and Colombians makes its infection more violent.

The researchers analyzed a total of 96 municipalities, mostly with a total population of more than 100,000 inhabitants, although some that do not meet this requirement were included, but that have similar dynamics to those cities in issues such as mobility or services.

The United Nations has proposed a human rights and business agenda as a framework for countries to take action to prevent human rights violations that some companies have committed throughout history. However, this initiative exemplifies the situation in developed countries, where labor informality, which is widely represented by women and predominates in developing countries, is not taken into account. To analyze the absence of this gender approach in the context of labor informality within the agenda, researchers of the Faculty of Law at Universidad del Rosario studied the informal mining in Colombia, a field historically related to violence and discrimination against women.

The construction of peace is a longterm process that naturally entails challenges.

For 20 years, the Banco de la República has been consulting with the main economic actors about its forecasts regarding what will happen to the Colombian economy. These predictions have become a key element in shaping the country’s monetary policy.

The number of bees on the planet is declining. To this critical situation, we must add that those who remain are losing their learning capabilities. Researchers of Universidad del Rosario have created a formula to protect and recover the brains of pollinators affected by exposure to pesticides.

How do elections influence the strengthening of our democracy? In this special report, we have asked several researchers of Universidad del Rosario about aspects of the electoral processes in our country that influencethe quality and scope of democracy in our country.