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…

Factors associated with tuberculosis treatment initiation among bacteriologically negative individuals evaluated for tuberculosis: An individual patient data meta-analysis

Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pages e1004502

Background: Globally, over one-third of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) disease diagnoses are made based on clinical criteria after a negative bacteriological test result. There is…

Care for end-stage kidney disease in China: progress, challenges, and recommendations

Winnie Yip

Vol. 54, Pages 101268

This review comprehensively evaluates China’s progress in care of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) by identifying achievements and gaps, reviewing ESKD-related policy initiatives,…

Policies, Progress, and Prospects for Internet Telemedicine in China

Winnie Yip

Vol. 10, Issue 2

Around the world, the adoption of digital technologies in health care has accelerated considerably in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the emergence of the pandemic,…

Applied Political Analysis for Health System Reform

Michael Reich

Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…

Effects of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on smoking behaviours and macroeconomic outcomes in Shanghai, China: a difference-in-differences analysis and modelling study

Winnie Yip

Vol. 9, Issue 12

Background: China has one of the highest levels of tobacco consumption globally, and there is no national smoke-free legislation. Although more than 20 Chinese cities have passed…

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Vol. 404, Issue 10467

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in…

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito

Vol. 10, Issue 3

Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…

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…

Double Standard: Economic Policy is Mostly Industrial Policy

Celestin Monga

The world faces a conflux of powerful forces of change. Digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence are transforming markets, economies, and societies. Global…

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