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Past Grantees of Global Development Research Funding

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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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data
Education and Skills

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

Environment and Climate Change
Governments and Institutions
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work
Trade and Migration
Environment and Climate Change

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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data
Education and Skills

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

Gender and Equity
Governments and Institutions
Environment and Climate Change

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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data
Environment and Climate Change

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

Governments and Institutions
Education and Skills
Business, Entrepreneurship, and Work

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

Governments and Institutions
Gender and Equity
Health

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

Governments and Institutions

Jennifer Pan, Department of Communications
Digital Technology and Autocracy

Trade and Migration
Innovations in Methods and Data
Urbanization and Infrastructure

Hannah Postel, Department of Economics
Assessing African Migration Aspirations

Environment and Climate Change
Governments and Institutions
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data
Gender and Equity

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

Innovations in Methods and Data
Gender and Equity
Health

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

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Health
Innovations in Methods and Data

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

Health
Gender and Equity
Urbanization and Infrastructure

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions

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

Governments and Institutions

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