Karra Speaks at International Conference on Family Planning in Rwanda

Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the 2018 International Conference on Family Planning held in Kigali, Rwanda from November 12-15, 2018.

Dr. Karra led a session on the demographic dividend in a pre-conference workshop, and presented a poster and as part of an oral session at the conference. He was also part of a live interview on the demographic dividend.

You can watch the interview here:

Dr. Karra also recently received a generous grant from the Hewlett Foundation to expand on his work on women’s empowerment and reproductive health through his Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER).

Karra’s 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.