I am a tenured Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the BU Global Development Policy Center, and Director of the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER). I am also a Co-Editor of Studies in Family Planning.
I will be on sabbatical at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Göttingen in the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025.
You can also find more information about me on my Pardee School profile page as well as on my Global Development Policy Center profile page.
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A new working paper on the concept of unmet need for family planning, where I propose a new approach to more effectively measure it with routine data.
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies is proud to announce that faculty members Rachel Brulé and Mahesh Karra have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure by Boston University. Scott Taylor, Dean of the Pardee School, expressed his enthusiasm for the well-deserved promotions, stating “It is gratifying to see their excellent scholarship, […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the School’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), spoke recently to Scientific American about a recent study that suggests children in rural areas now grow slightly taller than children in urban areas. […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the School’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), has published an article in Studies in Family Planning (SFP) on the measurement of unmet need Up to 215 million women, or 26 percent of […]
The Population Council has announced that Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the School’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), will serve as an editor of its Studies in Family Planning (SFP) research journal. SFP publishes public health, social science, and biomedical research with […]
On July 13, 2022, Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the School’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), spoke at the Population Reference Bureau’s (PRB) Demography Talk on family planning interventions and how research and data on […]
Intervals of less than 24 months between pregnancies and births can adversely affect maternal and child health, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. While studies suggest that improving access to family planning services may also improve women’s contraceptive use and reduce fertility, high-quality evidence of the effect of family planning interventions on longer-term fertility and birth spacing […]
Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), both offered […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), published two GDP Center policy briefs on family planning services and women’s contraceptive preferences in Malawi. In the first policy brief, […]