We at Realize Research are a diverse group of impact-focused scientists and engineers with specialties in the practical implementation water, sanitation, menstrual hygiene, nutrition, housing, and renewable power production systems and programs.
Our goal is to improve lives in low-resource communities around the world through comprehensive context-appropriate research, engineering and education services.
Realize Research designs, investigates, educates, and reports about contextually relevant products and systems that have strong impacts on people's lives. 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. Designing 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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Everyone poops. We know how to manage it. We specialized in household/on-site, community-scale, and school-based systems.
Everyone needs to drink clean water. We specialize in water supply and treatment systems for communities and households.
Specialized in solar and wind power systems
Household and individual
for products and services
Specialized in earthquake-resistant design
Applying engineering in low-resource contexts
Specialized in children under two, including breastfeeding
School-aged and adult menstruators, their peers, non-menstruators, and parents
Conferences, K-12 and university teaching, workshops
Peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, internal reports
Video-based or in-person for survey administration and construction
Enquire about our services or collaborations by emailing us at contact@realize-research.com
or by scheduling time with James Harper.
Discounted rates and pro bono services available for customers from low-resource communities.