I have been leading the integration of nationally representative child development data (MICS & DHS), with gridded population counts (WorldPop), and satellite-based climate observations (Google Earth Engine) to generate subnational estimates of the number of children exposed to floods, droughts, and heatwaves, as well as those who simultaneously lack access to improved water and sanitation, are undernourished, and unvaccinated.
I have been leading research to simulate the impacts, economic returns, and cost-effectiveness of scaling up evidence-based social interventions for adolescent wellbeing in collaboration with Governments in Kenya and Nigeria supported by the Gates Foundation and Wellspring Foundation.
In Kenya, This research has supported the design of a new adolescent cash ‘plus’ programme to be integrated within the national safety net system, Inua Jamii.
In Nigeria, this research is linked to informing the state-level adoption of an evidence-based economic support ‘plus’ safe spaces intervention for adolescent girls across the North of the country, focused on delaying child marriage and reducing its associated health consequences, including intimate partner violence and adolescent pregnancy.