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Anisa Khadem Nwachuku
Anisa Khadem Nwachuku is a third-year Ph.D. student in Sustainable Development with a concentration in Public Health at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. She is also a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow in International Development and Globalization.
Her Master's research examined the political dimensions of health equity in Mozambique, and she is currently compiling a health equity sourcebook and preliminary quantitative analysis on the incoming MICS3 data for UNICEF.
In addition to comparative Lusophone development and disparities in health, Anisa's broader interests include social cohesion/capital and highly-divided societies, tropical IDs and the experience of disease in marginalized populations, equity-based development models, moral leadership and development as a transformative process, the commercial sex industry, and assessing the true social impact of maternal mortality.
She has previously worked for the United States Department of State, The Carter Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University in International Development Policy.
Personal webpage: www.columbia.edu/~akc2114