Past Grantees of Global Development Research Funding
Global Development Research Funding goes to support small projects or seed funding for Stanford faculty and postdoctoral scholars. Global Development Research Funding was previously known as Junior Faculty Research Funding.
2022 - 2023 Academic Year



Gary Darmstadt, School of Medicine
Prediction of Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, and Kenya from Metabolomic Machine Learning Analyses



Brandon de la Cuesta, Department of Political Science
Rethinking the African Growth Narrative: Using Machine Learning to Study Development in Africa



Jens Hainmueller, Department of Political Science
The Impact of a Forecast-based Remittance Service on Anticipatory Action and Household Resilience to Natural Disasters



Melanie Hannebelle, Department of Bioengineering
Modifying of the Hydrodynamics of Water Access Points to Lower Schistosomiasis Infection Rates



Amanda Kennard, Department of Political Science
Can Redistributive Policy Moderate Climate Induced Conflict?



Melanie Kiener, School of Medicine
Estimating The Seroprevalence of Zika Virus in Coastal Kenya



Sridhar Narayanan, Graduate School of Business
General Equilibrium Effects of Small-Firm Development Interventions: Empirical Examination using a Marketing Analytics Field Ex



Pei Palmgren, Department of Sociology
Investigating Infrastructures of Care Among Migrant Workers in the Myanmar-Thailand Migration Corridor

Jennifer Pan, Department of Communications
Digital Technology and Autocracy



Hannah Postel, Department of Economics
Assessing African Migration Aspirations



Catlan Reardon, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Examining the Effect of Climate Shocks and Migratory Shifts on Violence in Nigeria



Kian Shaker, Department of Radiology
Low-cost, Ultra-portable, & Open-source Chest X-ray



Signe Svallfors, Department of Sociology
The Impact of Local Violence on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America
2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Jeremy Bowles, Department of Economics
Enhancing Zambia's Constituency Development Fund

Katherine Casey, Graduate School of Business
Candidate Entry Into Local Government


Arun Chandrasekhar, Department of Economics
Identifying Effective Strategies to Increase COVID Vaccine Takeup in India



Yoshika Crider, Department of Economics
Exploratory Research for Passive Chlorination in Health Care Facilities in Kenya

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Populism and the Failure of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Post-Democratized Latin America

Allison Grossman, Department of Political Science
Managing Humanitarian Emergencies: How Recipient Governments Constrain Humanitarian Aid

Yiqing Xu, Department of Political Science
Gaslighting: How The Chinese Government Shapes Public Opinion through Manipulating Comment Sections on Social Media