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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The association of travel distance and other patient characteristics with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and treatment completion at a rural Rwandan cancer facility

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 25

Background: Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) was founded to serve Rwanda’s rural low-income population, providing subsidized cancer diagnosis and treatment with…

Surveillance for TB drug resistance using routine rapid diagnostic testing data: Methodological development and application in Brazil

Marcia C.de Castro, Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 20, Pages e1012662

Effectively responding to drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) requires accurate and timely information on resistance levels and trends. In contexts where use of drug susceptibility…

Marcia C.de Castro

Vol. 18, Pages e0012739

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. Despite of the progress in malaria control in the last decades, malaria remains a major…

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,…

Integrated child nutrition, parenting, and health intervention in rural Liberia: A mixed-methods feasibility study

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Vol. 19, Issue 12, Pages e0311486

In Liberia, children are exposed to multiple forms of adversity which can negatively impact their health and development. Research is needed to examine the feasibility and…

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…

Inequalities in tuberculosis control in Ethiopia: A district-level distributional modelling analysis

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Issue 1, Pages 31-42

Background: Implementation studies indicate that the addition of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment services into the community health extension workers' tasks—that is ‘task-…

Caregiving for China's one-child generation: a simulation study of caregiving responsibility and impact on women's time use

Ana Langer

Vol. 9, Issue 6, Pages e013400

Introduction: The introduction, strict enforcement and recent exit of China's one-child policy (OCP) resulted in China's demographical changes, and, alongside its epidemiological…

The 1,7-malaria reactive community-based testing and response (1,7-mRCTR) approach in Tanzania: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Jessica L. Cohen, Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 13, Issue 1, Pages 92

Background: Reactive case detection (RACD) for malaria control has been found effective in low transmission settings, but its impact and cost-effectiveness in moderate-to-high…

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…

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