A5014321486- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Malaria Research and Control
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Mining and Resource Management
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Research Data Management Practices
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
University of Minnesota
2023-2025
Pennsylvania State University
2019-2023
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
2020-2022
University of Maryland, College Park
2018-2021
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
2016-2019
Brown University
2011-2016
John Brown University
2010-2014
Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
2011
New York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
2007
Cornell University
2007
The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar has reached historic lows. Improving control requires quantifying importation rates, identifying high-risk travelers and assessing onwards transmission. Estimates Zanzibar's rate were calculated through two independent methodologies. First, mobile phone usage data ferry traffic between mainland Tanzania re-analyzed using a model heterogeneous travel risk. Second, dynamic mathematical transmission rates was used. residents traveling...
Climate change may negatively impact education among children via exposure to extreme temperature and precipitation conditions. We link census data from 29 countries across the global tropics high-resolution gridded climate understand how climatic conditions experienced in utero during early childhood affect educational attainment at ages 12 16. show that higher-than-average temperatures prenatal early-life period is associated with fewer years of schooling Southeast Asia. In this region, a...
Indigenous peoples in the United States have faced continued land dispossession for centuries. Through reservation system as well policies including forced removal and allotment, colonial settlers later federal government acquired over two billion acres from Native Nations. We argue that another important, yet understudied unquantified, contributor to tribal loss is through construction of dams. By restricting water flow rivers or lakes, dams submerge under reservoirs disrupt aquatic...
Abstract The literature on climate exposures and human migration has focused largely assessing short‐term responses to temperature precipitation shocks. In this paper, we suggest that common coping strategies model can be extended account for mechanisms link environmental conditions behavior over longer periods of time. We argue early‐life may affect the likelihood from childhood through early adulthood by influencing parental migration, community networks, capital development, decisions...
Food insecurity is a major threat to global public health and sustainable development. As of 2022, 2.4 billion people worldwide experienced moderate severe food insecurity. The occurrence severity can depend greatly on power social hierarchies, with women girls often being less secure than men boys even within the same household. Moreover, roles, such as socialization mother feed her children, impact its consequences. This study aims uncover relationships between mental for in Chitwan Valley...
Forced migration due to development projects or environmental change impacts livelihoods, as affected households are faced with new-and often less favorable-environmental, social, and economic conditions. This article examines changing livelihood strategies among a population of rural agricultural displaced by the Belo Monte Dam in Brazilian Amazon. Using longitudinal data, I find that many used compensation payments concentrate income generation efforts on most lucrative strategies-cacao...
The Brazilian Amazon has long served as a site of infrastructure development and natural resource extraction. Development projects including dams mines have largely benefitted distant urban actors at cost to local communities the environment. We draw from theories internal colonialism environmental justice examine ways that dam building undermined well-being affected by construction Belo Monte Dam, understand how those engaged in collective action minimize negative impacts on their...
While policies often target malaria prevention and treatment - proximal causes of related health outcomes too little attention has been given to the role household- individual-level socio-economic status (SES) as a fundamental cause disease risk in developing countries. This paper presents conceptual model outlining ways which SES may influence malaria-related outcomes. Building on this model, we use household data from rural Mvomero, Tanzania, examine empirical relationships among multiple...
This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from Science Foundation DBI-1052875.