Multi-level Approaches

Associated Projects

Project	Principal Investigator	Description	Tags	Countries
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
Drivers and Consequences of Climate-Induced Migration in Africa	Clark Gray	This project will provide new insight into climate-induced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on how this process varies over space and how destination areas are affected.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
Impacts of Environment, Host Genetics and Antigen Diversity on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy	Michael E. Emch	This multi-site study in Africa is the first major attempt at understanding the impact of spatial ecology on malaria vaccine efficacy and the first integration of molecular data into an ecological vaccine trial analysis.	Biomarkers, Multi-level Approaches
Energy Transitions and Environmental Change in East and Southern Africa's Coupled Human, Terrestrial, and Atmospheric Systems.	Jason West	The East and Southern Africa region is experiencing unprecedented environmental change (citations), with untold consequences for human well-being and sustainability.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches
Center for Population and Aging	Kathleen Mullan Harris	Linked data from the Add Health Parent study (AHPS) and Add Health study will support a broad-based research agenda on intergenerational linkages over the life course of each generation.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environmental(In)Congruence	Taylor Hargrove	Examining the biological and social mechanisms underlying the relationship between socioeconomic mobility and poorer physiological health outcomes.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood	Kathleen Mullan Harris	The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Socioeconomic and Racial Gaps in Schools: Implications for Health and Employment	Kathleen Mullan Harris	For lower SES and racial minority children, school experiences are often characterized by inequalities in which they are disadvantaged relative to higher SES and White children.	Multi-level Approaches	United States of America
Evolution of Well-Being among Older Adults	Elizabeth Frankenberg	Looking at longer-term consequences of large-scale disasters on the health and well-being of older adults.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Indonesia
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
Service Delivery Factors Influencing Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Developing Countries: A Mixed-Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Approach	Kat Tumlinson	Results of this project will redefine traditional approaches to assessing the quality of family planning service delivery in developing countries and quantify the impact of service quality on contraceptive continuation.	Multi-level Approaches	Kenya
Longer Term Effects of a Natural Disaster on Health and Socio-Economic Status	Elizabeth Frankenberg	This project will collect and analyze data from Sumatra, Indonesia, on how children and prime-age adults are affected by and respond to a large-scale natural disaster, the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, which killed an estimated 160,000. The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) is a longitudinal survey of individuals, households, communities, and facilities in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Indonesia
From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research	Robert Hummer; Allison Aiello	A scientific training program for both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees which integrates both social and biological/health sciences research approaches for improving the understanding of health and well-being across the life course.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	North Carolina, United States of America
Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health Across the Life Course	Carolyn Tucker Halpern	Exploring how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to health and disease across the life course.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
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
Social Context, the Life Course, and Genetic Transcription in Add Health	Kathleen Mullan Harris	The collection and dissemination of genome-wide mRNA expression profiles among Add Health respondents.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Multilevel mechanisms of HIV acquisition in young South African women	Audrey E. Pettifor	Identifying social determinants and their pathways of effect that shape HIV risk among young women in sub-Saharan Africa, a population that bears an enormous burden of disease.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	South Africa
Evaluating the impact of SSB and nonessential food taxes in Mexico	Barry M. Popkin; Lindsey Smith Taillie	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
Extreme Events as Transformative Factors in Pastoral Social-Ecological Systems	Paul W. Leslie	This research focuses on the response of Maasai communities in northern Tanzania to the devastating drought of 2008-2009.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches	United Republic of Tanzania
Transition to a Western diet and cardiometabolic risk: Biomarkers derived from the microbiome	Penny Gordon-Larsen	This project investigates how long-term and short-term changes in diet, gut microbiota, gut microbiota-related plasma metabolites and microbiota-influenced markers of cardiometabolic disease interrelate in order to inform efforts to mitigate early development of disease risk across the globe.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	China
Exome Variants Underlying Weight Gain from Adolescence to Adulthood	Penny Gordon-Larsen	The objective of the research is to investigate how genetic variants influence temporal changes in body mass index and downstream cardiometabolic risk factors at a vulnerable lifecycle period for weight gain, with differential risk across race/ethnic groups. Our findings will contribute to the understanding of risk in the transition from adolescence into adulthood, a period of rapid weight gain when precursors of adult disease are developing, in order to inform efforts to mitigate early development of disease risk.	Biomarkers, Biostatistics, Data Science, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
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
Health and Poverty Effects of a Large-scale Cookstove Initiative in Rwanda	Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa	This project will evaluate the impact of a private sector cookstove and fuel distribution intervention on exposure to airborne pollutants, health and poverty.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches	Rwanda
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
Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging	Barry M. Popkin	Adding a follow-up survey to collect and analyze biomarker data from participants in the China Health Nutrition Study.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	China
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
ONEdata - Obesity & Neighborhood Environment Database	Penny Gordon-Larsen	The Obesity and Neighborhood Environment database is a unique collection of variables derived using spatial analysis techniques within a large scale Geographic Information System (GIS) that links community-level data to individual Add Health respondent residential locations in both space and time.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches
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
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS-HSE)	Barry M. Popkin	The RLMS is a household-based longitudinal survey designed to measure the effects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Russian Federation
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
Nang Rong Projects	Stephen J. Walsh; Ronald R. Rindfuss; Barbara Entwisle	A team collected information from more than 50,000 individuals as well as from adminsitrative records, meteorological data, satellite images, and many other sources over a span of 20 years in the Nang Rong district in northeast Thailand.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Thailand
Nutrition Transition Program	Barry M. Popkin	A set of reseach projects that study the rapid increases in inactivity and obesity, and the associated rise in noncommunicable diseases, that have occurred along with other rapid social and economic changes in the developing world.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
Ecuador Projects	Stephen J. Walsh; Richard E. Bilsborrow	This program investigates the social, economic, and demographic effects on land use change among colonist and indigenous communities in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Ecuador
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)	Barry M. Popkin; Penny Gordon-Larsen	CHNS examines how the social and economic development of Chinese society is affecting the health of its population.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	China
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