2025-26 AY PT Research Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Environment, Global Health, and Climate Change

The Stanford King Center on Global Development’s Academic Year Part-Time Research Fellowship Program connects King Center faculty affiliates and affiliated researchers with undergraduate students committed to providing research support during autumn, winter, and spring quarters. 

Students have the opportunity to engage in world-class research that has real-world impact. Undergraduate student research fellows are paid $19/hour*. Students must be enrolled full-time to participate and must be able to commit to research 8-10 hours per week.

*Students must attend orientation and submit an I-9 form to verify employment and receive payment. Students who cannot accept pay may be allowed to receive academic credit for this research. 

Research Project Description:

The research fellow can contribute to different ongoing activities within the lab based on their interests. Our mission is to improve population health by creating high quality evidence about what health interventions work in whom and where, when, and how to implement them. Most of our research is focused on infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea, soil-transmitted helminths, and influenza. We use a variety of epidemiologic, computational, and statistical methods, including causal inference and machine learning methods, in pursuit of our mission. Ongoing research projects include: 
- Randomized trial testing the effect of replacing soil floors with concrete on maternal and child health in Bangladesh 
- Quantifying the relationship between different housing features in low-income countries and health outcomes 
- Using causal inference models to determine where preventive malaria interventions are most effective 
- Developing novel metrics for climate adaptation and resilience at the household level in low- and middle-income countries

Primary Research Mentor: Jade Benjamin-Chung, Assistant Professor, SoM - Epidemiology and Population Health