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CERP PodcastsJul 16, 2021
Episode 18: Alleviating Childhood Stunting in Pakistan
Watch the latest episode of #CERPPodcasts on 'Alleviating Childhood Stunting in Pakistan'.
This episode features Dr. Agha Ali Akram and Dr. Hina Khalid as they share insights from their research in Pakistan, in which they used high-frequency nutrition counseling and growth monitoring to address childhood stunting. They also discuss policy implications and how such a health issue can be brought to the fore.
Speakers:
Dr. Agha Ali Akram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He received his Doctorate in Environmental Economics and Masters from Yale University. His research explores themes in public health, including drinking water quality, mental health, nutrition and family planning.
Dr. Hina Khalid is an Assistant Professor at the Information Technology University. She has a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York. Her research focuses on improving health system performance and reducing health inequities with a focus on maternal and child health and infectious diseases. .
Moderator: Ghada Qureshi (Communications and Outreach Associate, CERP)
Episode 17: Challenges to Increasing Public Health Compliance in South Asia
Watch the latest episode of #CERPPodcasts on 'Challenges to Increasing Public Health Compliance in South Asia'.
Featuring Dr. Kate Vyborny, Ashraful Haque, and Syeda Shahbano Ijaz as they discuss their research experiences around increasing compliance of people with prescribed public health guidelines. A pressing challenge for public health authorities in overcoming Covid-19, given that vaccination rates in South Asia continue to be quite low.
Speakers:
Dr. Kate Vyborny is a Research Fellow CERP, Principal Investigator Mosque/Imam Outreach, and also the Associate Director DevLab at Duke University.
Ashraful Haque is the Country Director of Innovations for Poverty Action, Bangladesh.
Syeda Shahbano Ijaz is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Political Science department at the University of California-San Diego.
Moderator: Lala Rukh Khan (Research Associate, CERP)
Episode 16: Dr. Ammar Malik on the Fear of Crime around Public Transportation
Dr. Ammar Malik, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, joins us to talk about stunning findings from his recent research that uses context-specific smartphone data to study the fear of crime and harassment experienced around public transportation in Lahore.
Dr Ammar Malik is the Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Non-resident fellow, Urban Institute and previously Director of Research at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD). Recently he has also been the Data Governance Manager at AstraZeneca. His own research focuses on spatial urban forms and their economic implications, the political economy of public service delivery, and the distributional effects of urban public transport.
Read more about the research: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
YouTube: https://youtu.be/JMWk-sThDqg
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Episode 15: Dr. Bilal Siddiqi on the Role of Trust in Increasing Resilience During Times of Crisis
Listen to this episode of CERP Podcasts featuring Dr. Bilal Siddiqi. He talks about the role of trust in healthcare systems, governments, and public messaging, as it helps understand the varying impact of the pandemic in different parts of the world and specifically as it relates to the upcoming challenges of mass immunisation.
Episode 14: Yasir Khan on Frontline Health Workers and Improving Public Service Delivery in Pakistan
In this episode of CERP Podcasts listen to Yasir Khan, University of California, Berkeley, as talks about his research on motivating frontline health workers and improving public service delivery through policy in Pakistan.
Episode 13: The Women's Mobility Project at CERP
In this new series of CERP Podcasts, we will be bringing to you insights from the research projects and other exciting work being carried out at CERP.
Listen to this episode of CERP Podcasts featuring the Women’s Mobility Project at CERP. We are joined by Dr. Kate Vyborny, one of the Principal Investigators for the project and Associate Director DevLab at Duke University, Syed Uzair Junaid, Programme Manager, and Alieha Shahid, Programme Manager, also moderating the discussion.
Episode 12: Khadija Bakhtiar on Designing the Current Education Response
Listen to Khadija Bakhtiar, CEO and Founder of Teach for Pakistan, as she joins CERP Podcasts to share insights on Teach for Pakistan’s experience with the pandemic so far, and the upcoming challenges around educational inequity, remote digital learning and digital spaces.
Episode 11: Dr. Imran Rasul on the Impact of School Closures during the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Imran Rasul as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about his research on the impact of school closures on young girls during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. He discusses the findings and their implications on policy making during the pandemic in the context of Pakistan.
Dr. Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London. He is co-director ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Research Programme Director, Firms Portfolio, International Growth Centre (IGC).
Episode 10 (II): Dr. Dean Karlan on Developing Resilience against Economic Shocks like the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Dean Karlan as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about his research on developing resilience against economic shocks by creating sustainable modes of income for poor households in Pakistan, and also about the long term benefits of the increasing use of mobile money.
Dr. Dean Karlan is the Professor of Economics and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University, and President and Founder, Innovations for Poverty Action.
Episode 10: Dr. Dean Karlan on Coping with the Pandemic and Mitigating it's Economic Impact
Listen to Dr. Dean Karlan as he joins CERP Podcasts to talk about the pandemic’s impact on deepening inequalities, and how poor households and governments in developing countries may cope.
Dr. Dean Karlan is the Professor of Economics and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University, and President and Founder, Innovations for Poverty Action.
He shares insights from his research, collecting data from across the world about food security, lost income, mental health and conflict as Covid-19 persists, and discusses the importance of mobile money and public health messaging in this scenario.
Episode 9: Dr. Madiha Afzal on Strategic and Foreign Policy Concerns for Pakistan amid the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Madiha Afzal on CERP Podcasts as she talks about the strategic and foreign policy concerns, developments around CPEC, and the interplay between the internal politics and external engagements for Pakistan, in the context of the pandemic.
Dr. Madiha Afzal is the David M. Rubenstein Fellow, at the Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and Center for Middle East Policy, at the Brookings Institution.
Episode 8: Dr Adil Najam on How to Approach Climate Change in Light of the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Adil Najam on CERP Podcasts as he talks about long term global shocks, the Paris Agreement, the impact of the current uncertainty, and the need for an interdisciplinary approach towards climate change.
Dr Adil Najam is the inaugural Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; and Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Boston University. Earlier, Prof. Adil Najam served as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development.
Dr. Sanval Nasim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at LUMS. His primary research and teaching field is environmental and natural resource economics.
Episode 7: Dr. Adil Najam on Narratives around the Environmental Impact of the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Adil Najam on CERP Podcasts as he talks about the lessons learned from the environmental impact of the pandemic, including the improvement in climate indicators as a result of recent lockdowns. And how these narratives might further develop negatively or positively.
Dr Adil Najam is the inaugural Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; and Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Boston University. Earlier, Prof. Adil Najam served as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development.
Dr. Sanval Nasim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at LUMS. His primary research and teaching field is environmental and natural resource economics.
In this podcast, they discuss: What are some of the lessons that environmental regulators can learn from the temporary improvement in average air quality as a result of the recent lockdowns? Is this strong enough evidence for better environmental regulations going forward?
Episode 6: Dr. Jacob Shapiro on Misinformation around Covid-19
Listen to Dr. Jacob Shapiro join CERP Podcasts to discuss the misinformation surrounding the nature of the virus and the nature of the government response.
Dr. Jacob N. Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.
Episode 5: Dr Tahir Andrabi on Learning Losses as a Result of the Pandemic
Listen to Dr. Tahir Andrabi as he joins us for CERP Podcasts to talk about how the pandemic might lead to learning losses for students, and how can these be possibly mitigated moving forward.
Dr. Tahir Andrabi is a co-founder and board member of CERP. Currently also the Dean at the School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Episode 4: Dr. Jacob Shapiro on the Covid Response and its Impact on Educational Opportunity
Listen to Dr. Jacob Shapiro as he joins us for CERP Podcasts to talk about the Covid-19 Response and how it can increase the disparity in educational opportunity, creating potential challenges especially for at-risk children, teachers, and schools.
Dr. Jacob N. Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.
Episode 3: Dr. Tahir Andrabi on the Financial Concerns for the Education Sector during the Pandemic
Dr Tahir Andrabi joins us for our CERP Podcast.
Dr. Tahir Andrabi is a co-founder and board member of CERP. Currently also the dean at the School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
We asked Dr. Tahir how the pandemic might create financial concerns for the education sector and how these can be addressed.
Episode 2: Dr. Matt Andrews on the Pandemic as a Transformative Point in Time for Governments
Dr. Matt Andrews joins us for our CERP Podcast. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, Building State Capability at the Centre for International Development at Harvard.
We asked Dr. Matt Andrews his thoughts about how this pandemic might act as a transformative point in time for governments in the developing countries?
He talks about channeling the sense of urgency for learning and change, emerging questions on inequality and the opportunity to bring important issues to the forefront of the government's agenda.
Episode 1: Dr. Matt Andrews on The Role of Political Leadership During the Pandemic
Dr. Matt Andrews joins us for our first CERP Podcast. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director, Building State Capability at the Centre for International Development at Harvard.
We asked Dr. Matt Andrews what he thought was the role that the political leadership and the public management needed to play in tackling the pandemic, specifically in developing countries like Pakistan?
He talks about the convening power that government's hold, the behavioural impact and the status quo.