Began our launch week yesterday with a conversation between Makhtar Diop and Michael Kremer. More events today and throughout the week - stay tuned! The University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute for Economics UChicago Economics Chicago Booth Harris Policy Rachel Glennerster W. Gyude Moore Josh Dean @mschomerus David McKenzie

Congratulations to all SPH students! And especially to Marie Chantel Montás, it has been a pleasure to be your mentor, good luck for what is next!

Very good initiative: Pfizer Inc. provides all its current and future patent-protected medicines and vaccines on a not-for-profit basis to 45 lower-income countries. Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal and Uganda are the first five countries to join. pfizer.com/news/press-rel…

Congrats Dr. Philipp Kastrau, my first ever PhD student (and coauthor)! Fantastic job during the PhD and very much look forward to see what comes next! A big thanks to the committee: M Voors, A Tarozzi, and Elisa Maffioli , super useful comments and suggestions!

Glad to be part of this team!

Great news from #DRC - 14th #Ebola outbreak declared over. Congratulations to the government and health teams on the ground, including World Health Organization (WHO), partners and communities, for their coordinated efforts to bring this outbreak to an end in under 3 months. x.com/WHOAFRO/status…

DIL at the University of Chicago is hiring! Great opportunity to work with Prof. Kremer, myself and the rest of the water team on new exciting research projects in the water and health space! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Thank you Jal Jeevan Mission I #HarGharJal #JJM #JalJeevan Vini Mahajan Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (#DDWS) for hosting us for this #safewater discussion. Rigorous research by Michael Kremer and colleagues shows water treatment is one of the most cost-effective ways to save children's lives.

Great initiative! Cannot wait to connect with so many great global health economists!

Thank you!!

#Nutrition-sensitive #socialprotection can provide significant nutritional resilience even after a program ends, even in an exceptionally dire economic crisis. Evidence from #Myanmar in a 🆕blog by IFPRI's Derek Heady & Elisa Maffioli University of Michigan School of Public Health: ow.ly/ZgEk50NjCao CGIAR

Really good piece by Siddhartha Haria Saloni Rachel Glennerster on why we took so long to have a malaria vaccine! worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-d…

We are thrilled to announce that Simprints has been chosen as a recipient of the highly competitive Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) grant from USAID!  🎉 This funding will power our new project: “Testing a Biometric Identification System to Improve Malaria Vaccine Rates.”

DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY for global health academics to submit papers for a chance to present at the May 20 #RosenkranzGlobal Health Policy Research Symposium on the Stanford campus. Sir Peter Piot headlining. Learn More: bit.ly/3OtRGHm

Workshop alert 🚨 Submit your paper on economics focusing on health in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries to the 2025 IFS-GHE workshop in London on 16-17 May. Submissions are open until February 15, 2025. Further details and submission link at: ifs.org.uk/events/call-pa…

🚨 New paper alert! 📢 We investigated whether SMS nudges and small incentives can boost COVID-19 vaccination completions in Kenya. 🇰🇪

Infant biometrics could be transformative: it can accelerate digitisation of immunisation records to help ensure children have the access they deserve to lifesaving vaccines. My thanks to Simprints for hosting us today in Ghana to see first-hand how this technology could help

Fun at ASHEcon 2025! Global Health Econ crowd Dr Anne Fitzpatrick Zoë McLaren, Ph.D. missing Jessica Leight