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Seminar: Mahesh Karra (Columbia University)
Dr. Karra is an Associate Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Director of the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER). Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s Center for Modern Indian Studies. His academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. He has conducted field work in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, worked for the Population Reference Bureau and the Futures Group International, and served as a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Population Council. He is a Co-Editor of Studies in Family Planning, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, fertility, and family planning.
Dr. Karra received a B.A. in Economics and Hispanic Studies (Joint Honours) from McGill University, an M.Sc. in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and an Sc.D. in Global Health Economics from Harvard University.
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Title: TBA
Location: Hunter East 530 (in the library)
