Faculty Publications

The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here.

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030

Christopher Golden

Vol. 6, Pages 105-116

Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual…

Global South Leadership Style: Strategies for Navigating Emerging Economies

Bruno S. Sergi

The Global South consists of emerging nations with increasing economic and political strength, drawing attention to their unique leadership challenges and opportunities. Visionary…

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

Goodarz Danaei

Vol. 404, Issue 10467, Pages 2021-2130

Background: Diabetes can be detected at the primary health-care level, and effective treatments lower the risk of complications. There are insufficient data on the coverage of…

Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 404, Issue 10462, Pages 1561-1614

Executive summary: In Global Health 2050, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health concludes that dramatic improvements in human welfare are achievable by mid-century with…

Equity as a priority in EAT-Lancet-aligned food system transformations

Christopher Golden

Vol. 5, Pages 811-817

Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring…

Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 4, Issue 9

Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…

The Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal, Neonatal, and Infant Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Christopher Sudfeld

Context: Previous research linked vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Objective: Update a 2017 systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized…

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

David Bloom

Working Paper No. 26003

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either…

The Impact of Excluding Adverse Neonatal Outcomes on the Creation of Gestational Weight Gain Charts Among Women from Low- and Middle-income Countries with Normal and Overweight BMI

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 119, Issue 6, Pages 1465-1474

Background: Existing gestational weight gain (GWG) charts vary considerably in their choice of exclusion/inclusion criteria, and it is unclear to what extent these criteria create…

Global maternal mortality projections by urban/rural location and education level: a simulation-based analysis

Rifat A. Atun

Vol. 72

Background: Maternal mortality remains a challenge in global health, with well-known disparities across countries. However, less is known about disparities in maternal health by…

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