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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Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

Alejandro Ganimian

Vol. 639, Pages 673–681

Many children from low-income backgrounds worldwide fail to master school mathematics1; however, some children extensively use mental arithmetic outside school2,3. Here we…

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…

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…

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-…

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…

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),…

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