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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Uncontrolled Illegal Mining and Garimpo in the Brazilian Amazon

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 15, Pages 9847

Mining has played an important role in the economies of South American countries. Although industrial mining prevails in most countries, the expansion of garimpo activity has…

"How I wish we could manage such things": A qualitative assessment of barriers to postpartum hemorrhage management and referral in Kenya

Jessica L. Cohen

Vol. 4, Issue 11, Pages e0003842

Maternal mortality rates in Kenya have remained high, with the country reporting 342 deaths per 100,000 live births. A major contributor to this is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH),…

Transforming Africa's food systems: building resilience to deliver healthy diets

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Food systems in Africa are under pressure from climate change, conflicts, health pandemics such as COVID-19 and rising food prices. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted weaknesses in…

Effect of sleep duration on child development in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

Marcia C.de Castro

Objective: The present study's objective is to assess whether sleep duration affects Early Childhood Development (ECD). A prospective cohort study was carried out with 278 mother-…

Experiences, acceptability and barriers to calcium supplementation during pregnancy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 21, Issue 1, Pages e13732

Calcium supplementation in pregnancy is recommended in contexts with low dietary calcium intake to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and its complications. The World Health…

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…

Estimated Health and Economic Outcomes of Racial and Ethnic Tuberculosis Disparities in US-Born Persons

Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 7, Issue 9

Importance: Despite significant progress made toward tuberculosis (TB) elimination, racial and ethnic disparities persist in TB incidence and case-fatality rates in the US.…

Trends and correlates in HIV viral load monitoring and viral suppression among adolescents and young adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Christopher Sudfeld

Vol. 29, Issue 9, Pages 792-800

Background: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with HIV have been shown to have lower rates of viral load testing and viral suppression as compared to older adults. We…

Estimated timing of the first menstrual period and dietary and nutritional correlates of menarche among urban school-going adolescents in four sub-Saharan African sites

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 20, Issue 3

Characterizing the timing of menarche and the factors that are associated with it is important for understanding a population's reproductive health needs and long-term health…

Emotional and cognitive influences on alcohol consumption in middle-aged and elderly Tanzanians: a population-based study

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 14, Issue 1

Alcohol consumption in Tanzania exceeds the global average. While sociodemographic difference in alcohol consumption in Tanzania have been studied, the relationship between psycho…

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