My research focuses on understanding and promoting individual, family, and community wellbeing — particularly in the context of humanitarian crisis, post-conflict development, and in the practice of global health. I am involved in two main research projects as a Postdoctoral Fellow. A unifying theme of this work is a social-ecological framework that emphasizes the relationships between wellbeing and broader social settings — the link between place and health. Another common feature of my work is the use of technology to improve and expand data collection and measurement. While I have worked with a range of populations, including internally displaced persons in Uganda, refugees from Darfur and the Central African Republic in Chad, and survivors of torture seeking asylum in New York City, my current projects are with youth — female youth in particular — living in East Africa.
CURRENT
UGANDA
Enterprises for ultra-poor women after war: Impact evaluation of microenterprise development program for young women affected by conflict in northern Uganda.
KENYA
Youth, health, and place: Using participatory mapping and geospatial technologies to understand the context of disease and to inform the development of a setting-level HIV prevention intervention.
COMPLETED
UGANDA
Communities in Transition (2007): Mixed-methods investigation of population movement and well-being during early phase of return and resettlement following protracted civil war and internal displacement.
