Past Recipients 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.

2024–2025 Academic Year

Name	Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Ami Bhatt	School of Medicine	Tracking antimicrobial resistance acquisition and spread in two Kenyan informal settlements
Giulia Buccione	King Center	Shame, Fear and Underinvestment in SRH for Teenage Girls (P1); Social Perceptions and Women's Political Participation (P2)
Charles Eesley	Department of Management Science & Engineering	Empowering Refugees Through Entrepreneurship: Training, Microfinance, and Market Access in Uganda
José Ramón Enríquez	Graduate School of Business	Deliberating for constitutional reform in Ghana: Fostering agreement with AI
Allison Hoyt	Department of Earth System Science	Community-led sustainable agriculture to support peatland restoration in Indonesia
David Laitin	Department of Political Science	The Returns on Housing Placement for Immigrants’ Sense of Being at Home
Susanna Loeb	Graduate School of Education	AI’s Got Talent: Unlocking the STEM Innovation Pipeline in Under-Resourced Settings
Jorge Salinas	School of Medicine	Establishing a Hospital Wastewater Monitoring Network for TB Detection in Peru
Nicholas Swanson	King Center	Freeriding as a Barrier to new Product Innovation
Sigrid Weber	Department of Political Science	Statelessness in Kenya: a panel study of the socioeconomic conditions of previous and current stateless populations
Elliot White	Department of Earth System Science	Assessing Mangrove Restoration Productivity and Key Environmental Drivers in The Gambia
Eleanor Wiseman	King Center	From farms to marketplaces: agriculture value chains and their role in promoting climate resilience and food security

2023–2024 Academic Year

Name	Department	Project	Thematic Areas
Eric Bettinger	Graduate School of Education	Integrating Vocational Education and Training into Academic Secondary Schools: A Strategy for Promoting Educational Equity in Brazil
Arun Chandrasekhar	Department of Economics	Enhancing ASHAS’ Role in Improving Community Healthcare Outcomes in India
Jose Ignacio Cuesta	Department of Economics	Loan Guarantees, Credit Access and Development for Small Farmers in Mexico
Binta Zahra Diop	King Center	Positive and Normative Determinants of Labor Allocation
Ashrakat Elshehawy	King Center	Agriculture, Human Capital, and Public Health in Egypt
Jens Hainmueller	Department of Political Science	What Drives Backlash Against Progressive Refugee Policies? Evidence from Kenya
Marc Jacob	Department of Political Science	Public Goods Provision and the Rise of Evangelical Churches in Brazil
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray	Department of Earth System Science	Towards sustainable and equitable use of ocean sand
Abraar Karan	School of Medicine	Piloting the feasibility of a low-cost rural surveillance system for zoonotic diseases in Western Kenya
Jean Lee	School of Medicine	Characterizing the association of low-cost preventative care on acute chest syndrome hospitalizations
Guilherme Lichand	Graduate School of Education	Validating and Piloting the Stanford Rapid Online Assessment of Reading in Brazil
Grant Miller	School of Medicine, Department of Health Research & Policy	SEWA Wage Loss Insurance Experiment: Evaluating the Sustainability and Scalability of an Insurance Product to Protect against Wage Loss
Ali Namayandeh	Department of Earth System Science	Identifying health-threats of toxic metal-containing particulate matter from coal-fired brick kilns in Bangladesh
Jelena Obradovic	Graduate School of Education	Global study validating novel, open-source survey tools for parent and teacher report of children's executive function behaviors
Andrea Pedroza Tobias	School of Medicine	Corporate Political Activity and the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Nepal: An Analysis of Food Industry Strategies and Policy
Benjamin Seiler	School of Medicine	Large Language Models for Efficient Human Trafficking Tip Processing
Sigrid Weber	Department of Political Science	The mental load and women's political participation: a measurement study in Zambia
Eleanor Wiseman	King Center	Understanding (informal) agriculture trade: value/supply chains, market power and price formation in East Africa

2022–2023 Academic Year

Name	Department	Project	Thematic Areas
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 Experiment in India
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