Research Interests
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Key Qualifications
- Primary interest in public policies that impact global health, social protection and social welfare policy;
- Expertise in evaluation research methods, including mixed methods study designs to conduct impact, operations, targeting and economic evaluations;
- Conducting mixed-methods rigorous evaluation studies of economic and social policy interventions
- Proficiency in field research in resource-poor, HIV affected and post-conflict contexts, including stakeholder analysis and communication plans; training of field workers and leading all field activities; quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis, and dissemination;
- Experience with advanced statistical methods (e.g. multilevel modeling, longitudinal and clustered data);
- Assessing social welfare strategies in low and middle income countries and exploring the feasibility of scaled up social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa
- Examining the operations and targeting of poverty alleviation programs
- Building accountability and transparency in aid flows to low and middle income countries
- Exploring and rectifying the data limitations for assessing the wellbeing of children, their households, and communities in developing nations
- Using the human rights framework to improve health and development
- Understanding the factors that undermine the public sector's ability to provide adequate services, such as poor governance, corruption, failing economies, and inadequate or poorly used development assistance
- Using econometrics, multilevel modeling and geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and present data
- Research draws upon the fields of economics, demography, social epidemiology, anthropology, public policy, education, medicine, and human rights.
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