A5074089192- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Agriculture, Water, and Health
Boston University
2023-2025
Stanford University
2015-2023
University of Connecticut
2023
University of Chicago
2015
National Opinion Research Center
2015
Greensboro College
2010
Improved cookstoves (ICS) can deliver "triple wins" by improving household health, local environments, and global climate. Yet their potential is in doubt because of low slow diffusion, likely constraints imposed differences culture, geography, institutions, missing markets. We offer insights about this challenge based on a multiyear, multiphase study with nearly 1,000 households the Indian Himalayas. In phase I, we combined desk reviews, simulations, focus groups to diagnose barriers ICS...
The Mexico City Policy, first announced by US President Ronald Reagan and since lifted reinstated presidents along partisan lines, prohibits foreign assistance to any organisation that performs or provides counselling on abortion. Many organisations affected this policy are also providers of modern contraception. If the reduces these organisations' ability supply contraceptives, it could have unintended consequence increasing abortion rates.We empirically examined patterns contraception use,...
Despite the potential of improved cookstoves to reduce adverse environmental and health impacts solid fuel use, their adoption use remains low. Social marketing—with its focus on marketing mix promotion, product, price, place—offers a useful way understand household behaviors design campaigns change biomass use. We report series pilots across 3 Indian states that different combinations mix. find sales varying from 0% 60%. Behavior promotion combined door-to-door personalized demonstrations...
Significance Monitoring compliance with environmental regulations is a global challenge. It particularly difficult for governments in low-income countries, where informal industry responsible large amount of pollution, because the lack ability to locate and monitor numbers dispersed polluters. This study demonstrates an accurate, scalable machine-learning approach identifying brick kilns, highly polluting Bangladesh, satellite imagery. Our data reveal widespread violations national governing...
Coal-fired brick kilns have spread rapidly in Bangladesh, where they are one of the largest sources air pollution. The adverse health impacts pollution been widely documented, yet there is little empirical evidence on externalities this important industry. We conducted a field study Bangladesh to quantify contribution fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and estimate association with child asthma symptoms, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), general respiratory symptoms. exploit...
We present results from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that introduced operational practices to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions 276 "zigzag" brick kilns. Of all intervention kilns, 65% adopted the improved practices. Treatment assignment reduced use by 10.5% (P-value <0.001) decreased CO2 PM2.5 171 0.45 metric tons, respectively, per kiln year. Valuing reductions using social cost of carbon 185 USD ton, we find benefits outweigh costs factor 65 1. The...
Agricultural production and household food security are hypothesized to play a critical role connecting climate change downstream effects on women's health, especially in communities dependent rainfed agriculture. Seasonal variability agriculture strains income resources makes it challenging time for households manage pregnancy or afford new child. Yet, there few direct assessments of the locally varying agricultural quality plays reproductive health. In this paper we build integrate ideas...
Abstract The demographic structure of urban populations shapes global economic development1,2, political stability3,4, and the impact climate hazards 5,6. Cities different sizes with youthful or aging populations, as well changes in migration patterns can have trajectories7 labor markets expand contract determine which groups are most vulnerable to extreme heat8, flooding9 air pollution10. Similarly, large young male potential cause instability4. As such, understanding these structures for...
The Trump administration reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy (MCP) in 2017 as Protecting Life Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) policy, forbidding international organizations receiving all U.S. health assistance from promoting abortion. Existing evidence suggests that abortion rates rise under MCP, but direct effect of funding restrictions on supply use family planning has received less attention. By studying PLGHA’s impact service delivery providers women eight sub-Saharan African...
&lt;p&gt;Since the 1980s, air temperatures have precipitously risen across African Sahel due to climate change. Currently, has rapidly greened. While drivers of such land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) this dryland region are debated, development organizations, governments, multinational organizations heralded greening as a solution land-degradation an impetus improve human health well being for low-income peoples region. Indeed, Great Green Wall garnered significant global...
The brick manufacturing industry in Bangladesh is characterized by informal inefficient coal-burning kilns that emit substantial greenhouse gases and air pollution. Despite decades of regulatory measures the promotion advanced kiln technologies, persist. We employed a multiphase, interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach to identify solutions. In this paper, we first summarize past approaches discuss key barriers identified improving industry, then present design, results randomized pilot...