Tag: Africa

Former Graduate Summer Fellow John Okechi Authors Paper on Environmental Health of Lake Victoria

John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate […]

Faculty Associate Lawrence Were Publishes Paper on Impact of Social Health Insurance on HIV+ Pregnant Women in Kenya

Lawrence Were, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Health Sciences at Sargent College and in the Department of Global Health at the School of Public Health, recently authored an article titled “Effects of social health insurance on access and […]

Experts Discuss Implications of the Informal Economy on Development, the Environment, and Health at Pardee Center Seminar

On October 17, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar titled “The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health.” The seminar featured Pardee Center Faculty Associate Lawrence Were (BU School of Public Health & Sargent College); Hwa-Young Lee (Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health); Afreen Siddiqi (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics […]

Faculty Research Fellow James McCann and Former Summer Fellow Kristen Carey Present at First Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History

Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. James McCann and 2018 Graduate Summer Fellow Kristen Carey presented at the first Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History from August 9-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Carey, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, presented a paper titled “Bogeys and Misconceptions: The Formation and Portrayal of Tanzanian Population Policy: […]

Sullivan-Wiley, Short Gianotti, and Connors Co-author Paper on Participatory Vulnerability Mapping

Kira Sullivan-Wiley, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the lead author of a recent paper titled “Mapping vulnerability: Opportunities and limitations of participatory community mapping.” The paper, published in the journal Applied Geography, is co-authored by Anne Short Gianotti, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and Associate […]

Delina Authors Book Chapter on Politics of Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics titled “The Politics of Energy and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In his chapter, Delina explores the politics surrounding the 7th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7), which calls for […]

Les Kaufman Co-authors New Paper on Armed Conflict and Fisheries in the Lake Victoria Basin

Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Biology, co-authored a recent paper on the growing risk of conflict within fisheries systems, specifically in the Lake Victoria basin. The paper, titled “Armed conflict and fisheries in the Lake Victoria basin,” […]

Former Summer Fellow Kristen Carey Authors Article on Population Growth in Tanzania for The Conversation

Kristen Carey, a PhD candidate in the Department of History and a 2018 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article in The Conversation exploring population growth in Africa, the history of family planning policies in Tanzania, and the connection between demography and […]

Sullivan-Wiley and Short Gianotti Co-Author Paper on Agricultural Land Management in Uganda

Pardee Center post-doctoral associate Kira Sullivan-Wiley and Faculty Associate Prof. Anne Short Gianotti recently co-authored a paper on agricultural management in eastern Uganda in the journal Land Use Policy.  The paper, titled “Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda,” explores the co-beneficial role that agricultural land […]

Former Summer Fellow Publishes Paper on Universal Health Coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria & Tanzania

Chukwuemeka Umeh, a postdoctoral associate at the School of Public Health and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper titled “Challenges toward achieving universal health coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania” in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. […]