A5078376397- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Social Media in Health Education
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Child Abuse and Related Trauma
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Community Health and Development
- Amoebic Infections and Treatments
American University
2019-2024
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
2020-2023
Yale University
2021
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
Abstract Background Trauma is prevalent amongst early psychosis patients and associated with adverse outcomes. Past trials of trauma-focused therapy have focused on chronic psychosis/schizophrenia comorbid Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We aimed to determine the feasibility a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) an Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing for (EMDRp) intervention service users. Methods A single-blind RCT comparing 16 sessions EMDRp + TAU v. only was...
This study explores the relationship between migration and household resilience during a global crisis that eliminated option to migrate. We link prior data from four populations in Bangladesh Nepal new phone surveys conducted early months of COVID-19 pandemic. While earnings fell universally, pandemic-induced declines were 14%–25% greater among previously migration-dependent households urban migrant workers, with remittance losses far exceeding official statistics. Heightened economic...
Abstract Aim Traumatic events are involved in the development and maintenance of psychotic symptoms. There few trials exploring trauma‐focused treatments as interventions for symptoms, especially individuals with early psychosis. This trial will evaluate feasibility acceptability conducting a definitive Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing psychosis (EMDRp) people Methods Sixty participants first episode history traumatic/adverse life event(s)will be recruited from intervention services...
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for displaced Rohingya people Bangladesh are allocated similarly unequal fashion when analyzed at national, regional, microregional levels. Refugee camps placed socioeconomically disadvantaged communities relative both as a whole surrounding areas. Our findings underscore...
Abstract Anecdotal evidence for several developing countries suggests that foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises (MNEs) may be an important conduit of cultural exchange. Recent work in economics has explored the role MNEs play transferring gender equality around globe, but with mixed results. In this paper, we consider implications increased Brazil on transmission high‐quality policy practice. particular, investigate whether workers experience at firms, now employed...