Watch the latest episode of #CERPPodcasts on 'Alleviating Childhood Stunting in Pakistan'.

This episode features Dr. Agha Ali Akram and Dr. Hina Khalid as they share insights from their research in Pakistan, in which they used high-frequency nutrition counseling and growth monitoring to address childhood stunting. They also discuss policy implications and how such a health issue can be brought to the fore.

Speakers:

Dr. Agha Ali Akram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He received his Doctorate in Environmental Economics and Masters from Yale University. His research explores themes in public health, including drinking water quality, mental health, nutrition and family planning.

Dr. Hina Khalid is an Assistant Professor at the Information Technology University. She has a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York. Her research focuses on improving health system performance and reducing health inequities with a focus on maternal and child health and infectious diseases. .

Moderator: Ghada Qureshi (Communications and Outreach Associate, CERP)

Watch the latest episode of #CERPPodcasts on 'Challenges to Increasing Public Health Compliance in South Asia'.  

Featuring Dr. Kate Vyborny, Ashraful Haque, and Syeda Shahbano Ijaz as they discuss their research experiences around increasing compliance of people with prescribed public health guidelines. A pressing challenge for public health authorities in overcoming Covid-19, given that vaccination rates in South Asia continue to be quite low.  

Speakers:  

Dr. Kate Vyborny is a Research Fellow CERP, Principal Investigator Mosque/Imam Outreach, and also the Associate Director DevLab at Duke University.

Ashraful Haque is the Country Director of Innovations for Poverty Action, Bangladesh.

Syeda Shahbano Ijaz is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Political Science department at the University of California-San Diego.

Moderator: Lala Rukh Khan (Research Associate, CERP)

Dr. Ammar Malik, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, joins us to talk about stunning findings from his recent research that uses context-specific smartphone data to study the fear of crime and harassment experienced around public transportation in Lahore.  

Dr Ammar Malik is the Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Non-resident fellow, Urban Institute and previously Director of Research at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD). Recently he has also been the Data Governance Manager at AstraZeneca. His own research focuses on spatial urban forms and their economic implications, the political economy of public service delivery, and the distributional effects of urban public transport.  

Read more about the research: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...​ 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/JMWk-sThDqg

Listen to this episode of CERP Podcasts featuring Dr. Bilal Siddiqi. He talks about the role of trust in healthcare systems, governments, and public messaging, as it helps understand the varying impact of the pandemic in different parts of the world and specifically as it relates to the upcoming challenges of mass immunisation.

In this episode of CERP Podcasts listen to Yasir Khan, University of California, Berkeley, as talks about his research on motivating frontline health workers and improving public service delivery through policy in Pakistan.

In this new series of CERP Podcasts, we will be bringing to you insights from the research projects and other exciting work being carried out at CERP. 

Listen to this episode of CERP Podcasts featuring the Women’s Mobility Project at CERP. We are joined by Dr. Kate Vyborny, one of the Principal Investigators for the project and Associate Director DevLab at Duke University, Syed Uzair Junaid, Programme Manager, and Alieha Shahid, Programme Manager, also moderating the discussion.

Listen to Khadija Bakhtiar, CEO and Founder of Teach for Pakistan, as she joins CERP Podcasts to share insights on Teach for Pakistan’s experience with the pandemic so far, and the upcoming challenges around educational inequity, remote digital learning and digital spaces.

Listen to Dr. Imran Rasul as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about his research on the impact of school closures on young girls during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. He discusses the findings and their implications on policy making during the pandemic in the context of Pakistan.

Dr. Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London. He is co-director ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Research Programme Director, Firms Portfolio, International Growth Centre (IGC).

Listen to Dr. Dean Karlan as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about his research on developing resilience against economic shocks by creating sustainable modes of income for poor households in Pakistan, and also about the long term benefits of the increasing use of mobile money.

Dr. Dean Karlan is the Professor of Economics and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University, and President and Founder, Innovations for Poverty Action.

Listen to Dr. Dean Karlan as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about the pandemic’s impact on deepening inequalities, and how poor households and governments in developing countries may cope.

Dr. Dean Karlan is the Professor of Economics and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University, and President and Founder, Innovations for Poverty Action.

He shares insights from his research, collecting data from across the world about food security, lost income, mental health and conflict as Covid-19 persists, and discusses the importance of mobile money and public health messaging in this scenario.