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Atheendar Venkataramani
Atheendar Venkataramani, M.D., Ph.D., is a health economist and primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He completed his M.D. at the Washington University School of Medicine, his Ph.D. in Health Policy (Economics) at Yale University, and his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Venkataramani's primary area of research is focused on the life course determinants of health and human capital. He has focused primarily on the long-run effects of early life health and nutritional interventions and has several published and ongoing projects exploring the strength of, and mechanisms behind, these links in both developed and developing countries. Dr. Venkataramani was a Co-Investigator on a $4 million grant from Grand Canada Challenges focused around understanding the life course consequences of nutrition and health during the first 1000 days of life. He is currently a Principal Investigator on a U.S. National Institutes of Health Career Development Award focusing on the effects of household microenterprise programs on the developmental trajectories of young children in Uganda. Dr. Venkataramani has also conducted research on the behavioural responses to public health programmes, focusing mainly on HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
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How women in politics impact maternal mortality
In the twelfth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Bhalotra et al. show that mortality during and after childbirth remains high, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid this are available, and demonstrate that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the introduction of gender quotas across developing countries, they identify reductions in maternal mortality, through increased skilled birth attendance and prenatal care utilisation, alongside a decline in fertility and an increase in schooling.
