I am an 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.
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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.
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 […]
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, […]
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, presented a number of research projects at the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting. Karra presented finding of his own recently released research as […]
On April 16, 2021, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a webinar exploring the demographic trends of rising powers and superpowers. The event was part of the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI), a new research program at […]
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, published a paper in JMIR Research Protocols on his ongoing field study in Malawi. The paper, titled “User-Centered Counseling and Male Involvement […]
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, published an op-ed on the reduction and suspension of health programs related to maternal and child health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In […]
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 Pardee School and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center, provided their thoughts on the top policy priorities for human development […]
On February 17, 2021, 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, spoke during an event hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)-Malawi on family planning in urban Malawi. […]