2024 Global Development Research Symposium
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The Global Development Research Symposium showcases student creativity, achievement and research from diverse disciplines of study across Stanford University. The symposium will feature the work of scholars, including those who have received funding from the King Center over the last year.
The inaugural 2024 symposium will highlight posters by undergraduates, predoctoral research fellows, graduate student researchers, as well as postdoctoral fellows. A keynote talk at noon will feature Professor Grant Miller, and the junior researchers who have jointly contributed to Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab research.
Additional funding for this event is provided by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE).
Please note that the Gunn SIEPR building is wheelchair-accessible. If we can provide any other ADA accommodations for you to fully participate in the event, please let us know through the RSVP form.
About the Keynote Speaker:
Grant Miller, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development
Grant Miller is Faculty Affiliate and '20–'22 Dong Wei Faculty Fellow at the King Center on Global Development. He is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, a core faculty member at Stanford Health Policy, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Miller’s primary interests are health economics, development economics, and economic demography. His work has been published in numerous journals including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the Lancet Global Health, and the American Economic Journal.
Posters:
Scholar | Poster Title | Advisor/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Khusbu Adhikari | Metabolic Neonatal Profiles of Preterm Birth across Five Cohorts in Low–and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs) | David Stevenson |
| Rahemeen Ahmed | Adapting Futures: Building Disaster Resilience across Continents | Jack Baker |
| Jonathan Altamirano | Violence, Mental Health, and HIV among Youth: Elucidating Key Risk Factors for Poor Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Western Kenya | Mike Baiocchi, Clea Sarnquist |
| Anvesh Badamikar | Using a Systems Approach to Improve WASH Facilities in Primary Government Schools in Uttar Pradesh, India | Jenna Davis, Gary Darmstadt |
| Will Berriman | Supply Chain Effects of Treatment on Traders in Eastern African Informal Agricultural Markets | Eleanor Wiseman |
| Vaishnavi Bhamidi | Case Fatality Risk of Clinical Signs of Possible Serious Bacterial Infections (pSBI) in Young Infants in Africa and Asia: Secondary Analysis of Pooled Data | Gary Darmstadt |
| Yihe Chang | Diverse Societies, Unified Duties: Assessing the Impact of Immigration on Public Tax Morale | Erez Yoeli, Petra Persson |
| Sheryl Chen | Extracting Insights for Political Economy Research Using Advanced AI Methods | Ashrakat Elshehawy |
| Irmak Ersoz | Development through the Looking Glass: Predictive Modeling Development Project Performance | Jeremy Weinstein |
| Thay Graciano | Combating Human Trafficking in Brazil | Grant Miller |
| Gracie Hornsby | Assessing the Individual and Combined Impacts of Education and Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance on Handwashing Behavior among Primary School Students in Uttar Pradesh, India | Jenna Davis |
| Meghan Jin | Experiences, Perspectives, and Needs of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health amidst Changing Landscapes in Santiago, Chile | Clea Sarnquist |
| Mridul Joshi | Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Digital Empowerment Curriculum for College Students in India | |
| Anesta Kothari | INKWELL – a Low-Cost, Open, Electricity-Free Device for Producing Thin Smears for Use in Field Diagnostics | Manu Prakash |
| Anesta Kothari | PLANTPAD – Enabling Local Distributed Manufacturing Globally: Sustainable Menstrual Pad Production from Diverse Sources of Biomass | Manu Prakash |
| Alice Ku | Open-Source, Low-Cost Dosimeter for X-ray Exposure Monitoring | Kian Shaker |
| Alexandra Lee | Predicting Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil: A Machine Learning Model of Forest Cover, Climate, and Land Use | Erin Mordecai |
| Hope Leng | Distributed Manufacturing of SnapDx: A Modular Molecular Platform for Electricity- and Equipment-Free Rapid Diagnosis in Low-Resource Areas | Manu Prakash |
| Hongquan Li | Octopi – Open, Configurable and Affordable Automated Microscope for Diagnostic Applications | Manu Prakash |
| Natalie Milan and Faith Zehfuss | Refugee Entrepreneurs Network Disruption & Opportunity Recognition: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Uganda | Charles Eesley, Zahra Hajrati |
| Melody Moua | Decision-Making on Low-Dose Aspirin Uptake and Adherence among Women at Risk for Preeclampsia: A Focus Group Study | Gary Darmstadt, Carmen Lee, David Stevenson |
| Bailey Nicolson | Does OPEC Membership Influence Political Accountability?: Comparative Case Study Analyses | Amanda Kennard, Erica Gould |
| Santiago Paz | Long Run Consequences of Ethnic Conflict on Social Capital: Evidence from South Africa | Ran Abramitzky |
| Fernando Rafael Rodriguez Silva Santisteban | Evidence-Informed Influence Diagrams for Development Policy Decisions | Ross Shachter |
| Sergio Sanchez | Replicability of the Favorable Conditions of Lithium Extraction in the Atacama Region | Rodolfo Dirzo |
| Raina Talwar Bhatia | Compounding Impacts of Climate and Land-Use Change on Leptospirosis Occurrence in Peru’s Amazon Basin | Erin Mordecai |
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