Answering impactful questions that improve lives in low-resource communities

Who We Are

We at Realize Research are a diverse group of impact-focused scientists with specialties in water, sanitation, menstrual hygiene, nutrition, housing, and renewable power production.

Our goal is to improve lives in low-resource communities around the world through comprehensive context-appropriate research, engineering and education services.

What We Do

Realize Research gathers contextually relevant data, reports impactful results, and trains the next generation. We provide research, engineering, and education services that aim to improve lives in low-resource communities. Our research strives to describe complex context-specific systems in low-resource communities to produce results that private, public and government programs can use to change lives via improved public health, livelihoods, and safety. Engineering related systems is frequently required to affect change; our engineering services support our research or can be applied independently based on project requirements. Last, our education services ensure that our knowledge and experience with improving lives in low-resource communities is communicated to the next generation of researchers and engineers.

Research

Context-appropriate, comprehensive, reliable, impactful

We provide these research services:

Study design
Survey instrument development
Data analysis
Monitoring and evaluation
Report, presentation, and video creation
Presentation performance
Report-to-journal-article conversion
Editing for content and English language

Engineering

The right infrastructure built right for the right context

We provide these engineering services:

Conceptualization
Design
Analysis
Construction management
Maintenance management
Visualizations (e.g., CAD)
Report, presentation and video creation
Presentation performance

Education

Future leaders need to understand low-resource contexts.

We provide these education services:

Teaching K-12 and university courses in science and math, specializing in...
- Project-based engineering and environmentally friendly design
- Applied computer programming
Curriculum development and review
Guest lectures
Mentoring and tutoring in groups or one-on-one

Clients and Impacts

Many organizations, from the private sector to government to universities, have used our work to improve the lives of people living in low-resource communities around the world and support related research and education.

iDE

Thrive Networks and East Meets West

Splash

University of Colorado Boulder

National Government of Cambodia

Specialities

Our team has both breadth and depth of experience in a variety of fields of study. We are also always learning, and our current work includes menstrual health and more work on nutrition.