Faculty Publications

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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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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Rembrand Koning

Working Paper No. 25-023

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…

Improving primary healthcare with generative AI

Winnie Yip

Vol. 30, Issue 10, Pages 2727-2728

Studies in China show how large language models can improve primary healthcare systems, but equitably scaling this technology will require attention to rural, low-resource…

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…

Conditional cash transfers for education

Juan Saavedra

Pages 499-590

This chapter reviews the extensive literature to date on CCTs for education. Section 2 provides background on the origins and expansion of CCTs globally, and describes basic…

Expanding the food environment framework to include family dynamics: A systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence using HIV as a case study

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 42, Pages 100788

Food environment changes in low- and middle-income countries are increasing diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This paper synthesizes the qualitative evidence about how…

The economic value of reducing mortality due to noncommunicable diseases and injuries

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Pages 3335–3344

With population aging, national health systems face difficult trade-offs in allocating resources. The World Bank launched the Healthy Longevity Initiative to generate evidence for…

Double-duty actions addressing the double burden of malnutrition among adolescents aged 10-19: protocol for a scoping review

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 12

Background: The global adolescent population faces the challenge of the double burden of malnutrition (DBM), characterized by the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/…

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