Education reforms are framed as advancing gender equality, yet even highly repressive states adopt gender-rights language. This project explains why, and examines how governments define gender rights and which areas they stress or sidestep.
Migrant worker families are vital to the U.S. food system yet face health, legal, and social risks. This project studies migrant families from Mexico in California, focusing on child labor, schooling, health care access, and environmental impacts.
This project will use machine learning to identify risk factors and causes of stillbirth from verbal autopsies collected in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have struggled to achieve levels of economic growth on par with emerging economies in other parts of the world. How can we characterize economic development trajectories in the MENA region?
We seek an RF to support studies on evidence-based global health interventions. The RF will contribute to lab activities. Current projects include housing health impacts, malaria prevention, and climate resilience metrics area.
Uganda hosts millions of refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the existence of enabling policies that technically permit to work and own businesses, their ability to exercise these rights is often limited due to the barriers they face.
Our team is changing the way evidence is assessed and aggregated. We are developing approaches to use AI to credibly and rigorously make sense of the scientific corpus on questions of health and global development.
The network of international institutions that have historically supported humanitarian assistance to countries and regions experiencing food insecurity crises is experiencing unprecedented strain. What should the world food "social safety net" look like and how do we know?
A network of food security researchers around the world is busy putting together the first global harmonized subnational agricultural data from national reports, ministries of agriculture, etc.
Uganda hosts millions of refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the existence of enabling policies that technically permit to work and own businesses, their ability to exercise these rights is often limited due to the barriers they face.
Black soldier fly (BSF) farming is a nature-based solution to the waste crisis. This project will measure the impact of a new community BSF farm in Kenya focused on environmental contaminants, financial improvements and woman empowerment.
We are developing deep learning algorithms to identify and classify mosquito breeding sites in high-resolution drone imaging to help map the risk of dengue fever.
This project will involve studying organizational and economic approaches to mitigating violent conflict and political polarization, both historically and in contemporary settings.
Research fellow to contribute to studies on on evidence-based global health interventions - can contribute to different projects within the lab based on their interests. Current projects focus on housing health impacts, malaria prevention optimization, and climate resilience metrics.
This mixed-methods project aims to better understand how ranchers in the Bolivian Amazon are making decisions about natural resource management and the implications of these decisions for the social-ecological future of the region.
