Interventions and Evaluation
Associated Projects
Project | Principal Investigator | Description | Tags | Countries |
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Policies to reduce red and processed meat intake as a strategy to mitigate climate change and improve health | Lindsey Smith Taillie | Heavy consumption of meat, especially red and processed meat, is a major contributor to both greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. This proposal will examine current patterns of meat consumption in the US and test policies to reduce purchases of red and processed meat. | Interventions and Evaluation, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Mexico, Canada, United States of America |
PMI Measure Malaria | James Thomas | PMI Measure Malaria is a USAID-funded project to build on historical investments and accelerate progress made in malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation. | Interventions and Evaluation | |
Improving dialogue and accountability with a youth-led community score card in Western Kenya | Kat Tumlinson | The proposed innovation seeks to improve service delivery by changing the attitude and behavior of public sector healthcare providers when attending to young and unmarried family planning patients. | Interventions and Evaluation | Kenya |
Impact of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer on Beneficiaries' Vulnerabilities Throughout the Life Cycle | Clare Barrington | Identfying vulnerable sub-groups receiving unconditional cash transfers in Malawi, and identifying ways in which the Social Cash Transfer Programme can enhance its positive effect on their well-being. | Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Malawi |
Data for Impact (D4I) | Siân L. Curtis | We strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of local partners to collect, analyze, and use data to support their move to self-reliance. | Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Bangladesh, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe |
Positive, Negative, and Unintended Consequences of Nutrition-related Policies on Food Purchases: Pushing Nutrition Policy Forward | Shu Wen Ng; Barry M. Popkin | Studying the consequences of nutrition-related policies on food purchases. | Interventions and Evaluation | United States of America |
Understanding and Addressing the Multilevel Influences on Uptake and Adherence to HIV Prevention Strategies among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in SubSaharan Africa | Ilene S. Speizer | We propose a 5-year clustered randomized trial with a factorial design to evaluate the efficacy of a multi-level intervention that addresses stigma in accessing health care; social support and individual-risk behaviors. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Supporting Evidence-based Policy Making in sub-Saharan Africa through the Transfer Project | Gustavo Angeles | A multi-country cash transfer research initiative to find out if and how cash transfers impact other aspects of people's lives. | Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls and young Women to Reduce Sexual Risk in Tanzania: A Qualitative and Behavioral Economics Assessment of the CARE Study | Audrey E. Pettifor | Examining the experiences of adolescent girls and young women who were part of the CARE Study. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United Republic of Tanzania |
Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Maternal and Newborn Health Intervention in Ethiopia | Kavita Singh | Studying the impact of QI efforts to improve maternal and newborn health. | Interventions and Evaluation | |
Evaluating the impact of SSB and nonessential food taxes in Mexico | Barry M. Popkin; Lindsey Smith Taillie; Shu Wen Ng | This project looks at both customer and industry response to a 10% sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Mexico. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Mexico |
Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) the BMGF Family Planning Country Action Portfolio | Siân L. Curtis | The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative links country-level consortia with evaluation experts on the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project who will identify the most effective country-level approaches, facilitate knowledge sharing, and build a robust evidence base to shape future urban family planning, reproductive health, and integrated maternal and newborn health programs. | Interventions and Evaluation | |
Program and Policy Options for Preventing Obesity in the Low, Middle, and Transitional Income Countries: background research and program evaluation | Barry M. Popkin; Lindsey Smith Taillie; Shu Wen Ng | We are looking at taxation, advertising restrictions, and front-of-package labels, and their effects on food purchases and dietary intake in four countries -- South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and Colombia. | Interventions and Evaluation | Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Barbados, Jamaica |
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya | Harsha Thirumurthy | Despite major advances in care and treatment for those living with HIV, morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely due to the parallel challenges of poverty and food insecurity. | Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health | Kathleen Mullan Harris | The Add Health Wave V Program Project will add new data to the existing longitudinal multilevel social, behavioral, biological, and genetic data to create an unparalleled scientific resource for investigating the developmental origins of health and disease. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United States of America |
Forest Use, Energy, Livelihoods (FUEL) | Pamela Jagger | FUEL Lab researchers study how natural resource reliance influences the well-being of human populations in developing countries. | Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches | |
Energy Poverty PIRE in Southern Africa (EPPSA) | Pamela Jagger | This project seeks to understand the impact of strategies to improve access to modern energy services in Southern Africa, a region lagging far behind the rest of the world in energy access. | Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Global Food Research Program | Barry M. Popkin | We provide the academic community, policymakers, and the food industry with rigorous and innovative methods to measure the factory-to-fork dynamics and trends in the food supply in various countries across the globe. | Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches | Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, South Africa |
Transfer Project | Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | The Transfer Project is a multi-country cash transfer research initiative. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Family Planning Country Action Process Evaluation (FP CAPE) | Siân L. Curtis | The Family Planning Country Action Process Evaluation (FP CAPE) is a prospective, portfolio-level process evaluation that takes a complex systems look at a portfolio of family planning investments to improve modern contraceptive use. | Interventions and Evaluation | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria |
Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative | David K. Guilkey | The evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (URHI), a multi-country program in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal that aimed to improve the health of the urban poor between 2010 and 2015. | Interventions and Evaluation | India, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal |
MEASURE Evaluation | James Thomas | MEASURE Evaluation’s mission is to contribute to better health for people living in low-income countries by assisting governments and health institutions to generate and use information to change what doesn’t work and to scale up what does. | Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches | Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Eastern Caribbean, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey | Linda S. Adair | A longitudinal study following new mothers and their infants over 30+ years of life course development. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Philippines |
Associated People
Barry M. Popkin
Nutrition
Sean Sylvia
Health Policy Management
Stephanie Martin
Nutrition
Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa
Public Policy
Shu Wen Ng
Nutrition
Luca Flabbi
Economics
Michael E. Emch
Geography and Epidemiology
Kat Tumlinson
Maternal and Child Health
Sharon S. Weir
Epidemiology
Angela Parcesepe
Maternal and Child Health
Audrey E. Pettifor
Epidemiology
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Sociology and Public Policy
James Thomas
Epidemiology
Ilene S. Speizer
Maternal and Child Health
Krista M. Perreira
Social Medicine
Gustavo Angeles
Maternal and Child Health
David K. Guilkey
Economics
Douglas Lee Lauen
Public Policy
Margaret E. Bentley
Nutrition
Clare Barrington
Health Behavior
Kavita Singh
Maternal and Child Health
Jeremy Moulton
Public Policy