Field Research

In January 2021, I joined a research team studying The Economics of Health Decision-Making in Mozambique. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team - led by Dean Yang, Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) that included three rounds of over-the-phone health interventions and surveys. At first, the major focus of the project was to evaluate the impact of different information treatments on people's support for social distancing and knowledge about COVID-19. As issues of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and hesitancy surfaced, the surveys then moved towards the goal of understanding vaccine decision making. Recently in 2022, we started to pilot a new intervention, ProProgresso, a community-level HIV/AIDS program in Mozambique aimed at increasing HIV testing and ART adherence. Since joining the team, key outputs for which I provided research assistance/feedback include published papers on Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing, and Teaching and Incentives.

Besides my experience with the research in Mozambique, I have vast experience in fieldwork having been involved in various research teams in Malawi, where I am based. In 2019, while working with the World Bank office in Lilongwe as an Education Analyst Consultant, I was in a team that was conducting a large-scale Malawi Longitudinal School Survey - aimed at improving various educational outcomes in the country. This was done by conducting regular learning assessments with a representative, longitudinal sample of students who were in Grade 4 in 2016-18.

Before that, my experience with an economics consulting field in Malawi gave me the chance to appreciate issues of development through the various field trips I had between 2015 and 2017.

Below I share a pictorial mix of some of my past field experiences.