Kristen Brugh
Kristen Brugh, MPH
Program Initiated: 2011
Primary Advisor: Gustavo Angeles, PhD
Minor: Public Policy
Research Interests: impact evaluation; social policy; health economics
Dissertation Research: impacts of an unconditional cash transfer on household food and nutrition security and child health outcomes in Malawi
Honors/Awards: UNC-CH Graduate student transportation grant (2015); UNC-CH Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2015); UNC-CH Cynthia H. Cassell Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014); UNC-CH Maternal and Child Health Bureau Doctoral Traineeship (2011-2012)Kristen’s research interests include program evaluation, global health and development, social policy and health disparities, and health economics. She has advanced multidisciplinary training and experience in statistical and econometric analysis and research design for causal inference.
Bio: Kristen is a doctoral candidate and expects to graduate in 2016. Her dissertation research is an evaluation of the Government of Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Program (SCTP) on household food and nutrition security and child health outcomes. The first paper explores outcomes related to economic vulnerability to food insecurity, diet quantity, and diet quality. The second paper traces the effects of the SCTP on household demand behaviors and child anthropometric and morbidity outcomes.
Kristen’s research interests include program evaluation, global health and development, social policy and health disparities, and health economics. She has advanced multidisciplinary training and experience in statistical and econometric analysis and research design for causal inference.
Kristen is a graduate research assistant for MEASURE Evaluation and the Transfer Project, two major projects at the Carolina Population Center. Her two primary projects at MEASURE Evaluation include an impact evaluation of USAID-Guatemala’s Western Highlands Integrated Program, a combined agricultural and health intervention, and an in-depth analysis of maternal health service use and catastrophic maternal health expenditures in Bangladesh using both the 2010 Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey and the 2010 Bangladesh Household Income and Economic Survey. While her work with the Transfer Project is primarily focused on the Malawi SCTP, she has also investigated the impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on adolescent sexual debut and the impacts of the Zambian Child Grant Program on child health outcomes.
https://knbrugh.web.unc.edu
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