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Health Decision-Making in the Aftermath of a Disaster: Evidence from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

Flooding of streets and bridge after heavy rain storm in Dar es Salam, Tanzania. Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters as a consequence of global warming and climate change is detrimental in developing countries, where infrastructure and power connections are destroyed. Also plastic and trash is flushed from land to rivers into the ocean destroying their pristine marine environment.

Dean Yang, Tanya Rosenblat, James Riddell IV How do disasters affect individual decision-making about important health behaviors? Can public health interventions reduce disaster-induced deterioration of such decision-making? We explore these questions in the context of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. We have a research team in the area struck by the cyclone, that was about to… Continue reading Health Decision-Making in the Aftermath of a Disaster: Evidence from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

CNH-L: Energy Transition and Environmental Change in East and Southern Africa’s Coupled Human, Terrestrial, and Atmospheric Systems

Flooded river in Africa

Pamela Jagger We leverage dynamism in East and Southern Africa’s coupled human, terrestrial and atmospheric systems and its implications for environmental change to predict past, present and future impacts on regional climate, land use, and air quality. We highlight energy transitions as we hypothesize that biomass use and associated dynamics of coupled human, terrestrial, and… Continue reading CNH-L: Energy Transition and Environmental Change in East and Southern Africa’s Coupled Human, Terrestrial, and Atmospheric Systems

Poverty and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

Pemba, Mozambique - 29 April 2019 : Damaged and flooded houses after Cyclone Kenneth.

Dean Yang, Tanya Rosenblat, James Riddell IV How do disasters affect poverty and food security? Do disaster impacts operate, at least in part, through changes in economic preferences and psychological factors? Can community health and development programs improve resilience in the aftermath of disasters? If so, via what mechanisms? We study a major disaster that… Continue reading Poverty and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

Labriola,Joseph Mark

10/4/2022 CID Staff and Graduating Students

I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center. My research uses survey and administrative data to examine the roots of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary United States. My current work primarily focuses on racial inequalities in housing and wealth. I have also published on the causes of… Continue reading Labriola,Joseph Mark

Kate Duchowny

Dr. Kate Duchowny is a social epidemiologist and research assistant professor in the Social Environment and Health Program at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Her overarching research goal seeks to bridge the social, environmental, and biological determinants of musculoskeletal health and physical functioning in older adults to inform interventions. Dr. Duchowny’s current… Continue reading Kate Duchowny

Friedman,Esther M

esther friedman

Esther Friedman is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center, where she also serves as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dr. Friedman is a sociologist whose research examines how families and communities facilitate the health and wellbeing of older adults. Much of her recent work focuses on… Continue reading Friedman,Esther M

Cagney,Kathleen Anne

Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban sociological theory and methods to research on health. In… Continue reading Cagney,Kathleen Anne

Catherine Asher

Catherine Armstrong Asher is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Her research, at the intersection of experimental design, quantitative methods, and education, investigates treatment effect heterogeneity in interventions and policies to help build critical knowledge of what works in education and youth services,… Continue reading Catherine Asher

Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science

Across the past five decades, data creation investments in the U.S. and Western Europe have spurred dramatic breakthroughs in the social and behavioral sciences. The creation of large scientific studies of human behavior and social experience in the general population form a crucial cornerstone of these investments. Because the data from these studies are so… Continue reading Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science