Catherine Arsenault’s abstract entitled “Monitoring social inequalities in immunization coverage across low and middle-income countries” has been accepted to the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Their 48th Annual Meeting will take place in Denver Colorado from June 16-19, 2015. To learn more about Catherine’s abstract during the Meet, be sure to check out Poster Session 2…
14th World Congress on Public Health
The MACHEquity team’s presentation at the 14th annual World Congress on Public Health that took place in India from February 11-15th 2015 is now available on our News and Publication page. Congratulations on all your hard work!
Facebook and Twitter
It’s a little late but welcome back everyone into the new year! 2015 will mark the start of some exciting new developments for the MACHEquity team. In an effort to share our work and message with a greater audience, we are now officially on Facebook and Twitter. Click the links above to like our page and follow…
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA)
Congratulations! The MACHEquity team’s recent paper on the association between work-related breastfeeding policies and breastfeeding initiation and duration has been accepted by the Population Association of America (PAA). The paper analyzes how likely women are to discontinue breastfeeding after giving birth when expected to return to work. It suggests that workplace regulations that allow women…
MACHEquity Researchers on the Consequentiality of Social Epidemiology
Arijit Nandi and Sam Harper have co-authored a publication that questions how consequential social epidemiology is based on recent evidence. Academic epidemiology, and social epidemiology in particular, is often criticized for failing to produce actionable evidence that can inform specific interventions for improving health and health inequality. In response, abstracts from the annual meetings of…
MACHEquity Coinvestigator on Air Pollution in Urban India
Arnab Mukherji, a MACHEquity coinvestigator based at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, has recently coauthored a paper on the effects of air pollution on the health of children in urban India. The study, which used data from several Indian cities, found that air pollution has a much more negative effect on the children of…
Shailen Nandy wins CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize
MACHEquity coinvestigator Shailen Nandy has recently been announced the joint winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by Norwegian organization Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP). This prize is awarded every year to outstanding monographs that contribute to research on global poverty eradication or prevention. Dr. Nandy’s submission, An Analysis of Changes in Child Poverty in…
MACHEquity postdoc to present at PAA
Farhan Majid, a MACHEquity Postdoctoral Fellow based at McGill University, will attend the 2015 meeting of the Population Association of America, to present his paper War and the Destruction of Human Capital, coauthored with Jorge Agüero. The paper examines the effect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide on the stock of human capital in the country,…
Arnab Mukherji in BMJ Study on Health Insurance Provision for the Worst Off in India
One of MACHEquity’s coinvestigators, Professor Arnab Mukherji, contributed to a recently published study in The BMJ on the effect of government-provided health insurance for the worst-off households in Karnataka, India. The study found that the Vajpayee Arogyashree scheme, which provided free tertiary care to households under the poverty line, decreased mortality rates and out-of-pocket expenses amongst…
Announcing Children’s Chances
Dr. Jody Heymann, a co-investigator on the Maternal and Child Health Equity Project, has recently launched the first products of the Children’s Chances Initiative — a report, book, and website examining what actions countries are taking to make equal life chances for all children a reality. Drawing on systematic analyses of laws and policies from the…