2025

This pilot project proposes to supplement ongoing high-frequency data collection in Monrovia, Liberia with remotely sensed flooding measurements. Since June, we have been conducting monthly surveys in six poor communities to learn about households’ flooding exposure, displacement, health, and adaptive behaviors. The final endline survey will be completed in October 2025.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health challenges of the 21st century, associated with increased morbidity and healthcare costs, prolonged illness, and nearly five million deaths per year. While AMR is commonly studied in a biomedical context, the evolution and dissemination of resistance is also driven by complex spatial, ecological, and social processes. Despite this, the spatial ecology of AMR transmission across humans, animals, and environments remains poorly understood.

Housing disruption has become a defining feature of contemporary American life, with rising housing costs, volatile credit markets, and widening inequality fueling increasing rates of foreclosure, eviction, and forced moves across the socioeconomic spectrum. Although lower-income households remain especially vulnerable, the COVID-19 pandemic and recent housing market turbulence revealed that even middle- and high-wealth families are not immune to instability.

This project investigates how health status may operate as a labor market sorting mechanism, particularly in shaping exposure to precarious scheduling, and how this process is conditioned by race and gender. While the negative health consequences of precarious work are well established, emerging evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship: health may also structure access to quality work schedules. Yet this sorting process remains under-theorized and lacks causal identification.

IPV is a critical population health challenge shaped by social systems including gender norms, economic inequality and household dynamics. Yet its prevalence remains difficult to measure, limiting demographic research and policy responses. This study will test methodological innovations in population-based measurement of IPV, using an illustrative nationally representative dataset to: