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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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.…

How hospital autonomy affects provider payment reform effectiveness

Winnie Yip

Vol. 39, Issue 5

Background: Provider payment reforms (PPRs) have demonstrated mixed results for improving health system efficiency. Since PPRs require health care organisations to interpret and…

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/…

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…

School health and nutrition services for children and adolescents in Tanzania: A review of policies and programmes

Wafaie W. Fawzi

School health and nutrition programmes are effective strategies to address the health problems among school-going children and adolescents. We examined the policy environments,…

School health and nutrition environments: A multicountry survey in five countries of sub-Saharan Africa region-Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Schools are increasingly regarded as a key setting for promoting the health, well-being, and development of children and adolescents. In this multicountry cross-sectional survey,…

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