2024 Conference Abstracts

We are excited to annouce the papers accepted for the 2024 Pardee Atlas Graduate Research Conference!

Global Education (with a focus on Teacher Shortages)

Addressing Inequitable Teacher Allocation in the Phillipines

  • Anthony Garciano, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)
  • Tetsuya Higa, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Stéphane Ndayishimiye, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Yuhe Pan, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Human Development and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)

Teacher shortage in Venezuela: Leveraging positive deviance in a humanitarian setting

  • Catalina Reyes Villegas, Master of Arts candidate in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID), Harvard Kennedy School (Presenter)
  • Maria Andreina Cantele, Master of Arts candidate in Public Administration in International Development(MPA/ID), Harvard Kennedy School (Presenter)

Global Health

Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded HPV Vaccination in Moscow, Russia

  • Daria Nefedova, Master of Science candidate in Global Health Policy and Management, Brandeis University (Presenter)
  • Shiji Valsan, Master of Science candidate in Global Health Policy and Management, Brandeis University (Presenter)

In-country financial cost of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in Nigeria: comparison between contrasting states

  • Ismail Ndalami Salihu, Master of Science candidate in Global Health Policy and Management, Brandeis University (Presenter)
  • Shafik Sekitto, Master of Science candidate in Global Health Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Global Education (with a focus on Access to Education)

Leveraging Technology to Improve Foundational Learning for Sierra Leone

  • Salat Ahmed, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Saida Hassan, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)
  • Jordan Weatherl, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education 

Adolescent Girls’ Secondary Education Transition in Lebanon Client: UNICEF Lebanon

  • Elhana Sugiaman, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)
  • Rola Tarek, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)
  • Luming Zhang, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Policy, and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education 
  • Manasi Mehan, Master’s in Education (Ed.M) candidate in Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Presenter)

Humanitarian Crises

Gender and Ethnic Apartheid under the Taliban in Afghanistan

  • Simranjeet Kaur, Master of Arts candidate in International Affairs (specialization in Security Studies), Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Enhancing the State Department’s Humanitarian Aid and Multilateral Policies Addressing Migration in Mexico

  • Justin Dynia, Master of Arts candidate in Latin American Studies, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Geopolitics & Security 

From the Shadows to the Frontline: The Emergence of Paramilitary Organization in Post-Soviet Russia

  • Lavinia Teodorescu, Master of Arts candidate in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Harvard University

The War in Ukraine – Do Dual Use Technologies challenge the principle of distinction?

  • Amaury Heintz, Master of Arts candidate in International Affairs (specialization in Security Studies), Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies