Small World Initiative

The Small World Initiative® (SWI) is an innovative nonprofit dedicated to transforming STEM education while solving pressing real-world health challenges. Initiated at Yale University in 2012, SWI's primary program engages thousands of students and educators around the world in the hunt to discover new drugs to treat infectious diseases known as superbugs. The program's unique approach provides an inexpensive "crowdsourcing" model for early-stage drug discovery as well as a blueprint on how to retain students in STEM and increase scientific literacy.