By Naomi Frim-Abrams On October 23, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Nina Brooks, Core Faculty Member of HCI at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and Assistant Professor of Global Health with the Boston University School of Public Health, as part of the 2024 Fall HCI Research Seminar Series, to present her […]
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On September 25, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Emily Sellars from the Department of Political Science at Yale University for the first session of the Fall 2024 HCI Research Seminar Series to discuss her forthcoming book “The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Reform in Mexico.” To assess […]
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On April 10, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative hosted Soledad Artiz Prillaman for the third Spring Research Seminar, “The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unravelling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India.” Prillaman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the faculty director of the Stanford Inclusive […]
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On March 29, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) convened the new cohort of HCI Core Faculty Members to present their current research projects and spark conversations about potential areas for collaboration in the annual Human Capital Initiative Research Symposium. With topics spanning long-term mobility in informal settlements, social and economic determinants […]
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On March 20, 2024, the Spring 2024 Human Capital Initiative Research Seminar Series hosted Elisa Maffioli, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, to discuss her forthcoming study on the effect of social influence on vaccination behavior during COVID-19 in Kenya. The study evaluates a campaign where […]
By Ananya Agarwal Public servants worldwide face legal restrictions, to varying degrees, on their ability to leave the public sector to represent private interests for personal gain before the government in which they served. So-called “revolving door laws” often involve constraints on how a former official may interact with government (e.g., whether they can interact […]
By Maureen Heydt The Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) is pleased to announce the second cohort of Human Capital Initiative (HCI) Core Faculty Program. These seven full-time BU faculty members represent diverse departments across the University, including the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, Sociology, Economics, Health Sciences and the Pardee School […]
By Richa Jindal Racism has a global historic root that has both been propagated in various forms. Often, people who propagate racism are situated in positions of power; their actions can therefore negatively impact vulnerable communities, which have suffered economically and socially by racial suppression. Historically, racism has also defined and dictated the socio-economic status […]
By Emanne Khan Trade relations between China and the United States reached a major turning point in 1979 when the two countries signed a trade agreement that provided both with greater access to the other’s markets. Then-US Secretary of Commerce Juanita M. Kreps stated at the signing, “Today we take a major step together in […]
By Emanne Khan The word “infodemic” emerged nearly two decades ago when journalist David Rothkopf wrote in a 2003 Washington Post article about the then-ongoing global SARS outbreak, “A few facts, mixed with fear, speculation and rumor, amplified and relayed swiftly worldwide by modern information technologies, have affected national and international economies, politics and even […]