Research

Our research is based on a solid evidence-based global health framework. We emphasize the fair, efficient, and effective allocation of global health resources, with a particular focus on women and children.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Effectiveness

Odhiambo, Julius Nyerere, Carrie Dolan, Ammar A. Malik, and Aaron Tavel*. "China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa." BMJ Global Health 8, no. 12 (2023): e013349.

Dolan, Carrie B., Ammar A. Malik, Sheng Zhang, Wenhui Mao, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Eli Svoboda,* and Julius N. Odhiambo. "Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story." PLOS Global Public Health 3, no. 6 (2023): e0001637.

Pincombe,* Morgan, Victoria Reese,* and Carrie B. Dolan. "The effectiveness of national-level containment and closure policies across income levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 113 countries." Health Policy and Planning 36, no. 7 (2021): 1152-1162.

Dolan, Carrie B., Ariel BenYishay, Karen A. Grépin, Jeffery C. Tanner, April D. Kimmel, David C. Wheeler, and Gordon C. McCord. "The Impact of an Insecticide Treated Bednet Campaign on All-Cause Child Mortality: A Geospatial Impact Evaluation from the Democratic Republic of Congo." PloS one 14, no. 2 (2019): e0212890.

Marty, Robert, Seth Goodman, Michael LeFew, Carrie Dolan, Ariel BenYishay, and Daniel Runfola. "Assessing the causal impact of Chinese aid on vegetative land cover in Burundi and Rwanda under conditions of spatial imprecision." Development Engineering 4 (2019): 100038.

Dolan, Carrie B. "Health Aid Projects have both Expanded and Constrained the Capacity of Health Facilities to Deliver Malaria Services to Under-Five Children in Malawi." BMJ global health 3, no. 6 (2018): e001051

Marty*, Robert, Carrie B. Dolan, Matthias Leu, and Daniel Runfola. "Taking the Health Aid Debate to the Subnational Level: The Impact and Allocation of Foreign Health Aid in Malawi." BMJ global health 2, no. 1 (2017): e000129.

Efficiency

BenYishay, Ariel, Matthew DiLorenzo, and Carrie Dolan. "The economic efficiency of aid targeting." World Development 160 (2022): 106062.

Arbia, Giuseppe, Paolo Berta, and Carrie B. Dolan. "Measurement Error Induced by Locational Uncertainty when Estimating Discrete Choice Models with a Distance as a Regressor." The Annals of Regional Science (2022) .

Dolan, Carrie B., Samuel A. Agyemang, Brian Clare, Charles Coleman*, Bill Richter, Emily Robertson, and Justice Nonvignon. "Cost-effectiveness of paediatric surgery: an economic evaluation of World Paediatric Project surgical interventions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2002–2019)." BMJ Open 11, no. 12 (2021): e050286.

Hilla, Amy,* Victoria Reese,* Justice Nonvignon, and Carrie B. Dolan. "Methods for estimating economic benefits of surgical interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review." BMJ open 10, no. 12 (2020): e039644.

Dolan, Carrie B. "An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health Aid." In Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development. Springer, 2019, 63-81.

Equity

Odhiambo, Julius Nyerere, Carrie B. Dolan, Lydia Troup,* Nathaly Perez Rojas*. “Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiological approaches to inform COVID-19 surveillance and control: a systematic review of statistical and modelling methods in Africa.” BMJ Open 2023; 13:e067134. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-0671346.

Odhiambo, Julius Nyerere, and Carrie B. Dolan. "Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiological approaches to inform COVID-19 surveillance and control: a review protocol." Systematic Reviews 11, no. 1 (2022): 1-6.

Sasman,* Madison, Carrie B. Dolan, Daniel Villegas,* Estelle Eyob,* and Catherine Barrett.* "The Influence of Marginalization on Cultural Attitudes and Trash Disposal Practices in Esfuerzo de Paraíso of the Dominican Republic: A Qualitative Interview Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 6 (2021): 2872.

Dolan, Carrie B., McKinley Saunders,* and Ariel BenYishay. "Childhood health and the changing distribution of foreign aid: Evidence from Nigeria's transition to lower-middle-income status." Plos one 15, no. 11 (2020): e0241866.

Dolan, Carrie B., and Kaci Kennedy McDade. "Pulling the Purse Strings: Are there Sectoral Differences in Political Preferencing of Chinese Aid to Africa?" PloS one 15, no. 4 (2020): e0232126.

*represent William & Mary undergraduate student authors