Jon Shaffer & Sasha White win Pardee Fellowships
Graduate Students Jonathan Shaffer and Alexandre (Sasha) White have both won Pardee Center 2017 Summer Fellowships!
Each summer 8 graduate students are selected for these fellowships. The Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing research papers to be considered for publication as part of the Pardee Center’s publication series. In addition, Summer Fellows will participate in special programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning and will interact with Pardee Center staff, Faculty Research Fellows and Associates, Visiting Fellows, and post-docs.
Jonathan Shaffer will study the political obstacles to financing the care, treatment, and prevention of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Alexandre White will examine how the risk of epidemic outbreak is determined, and what sort of threats trigger greater intervention from the World Health Organization