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Phone: +1 (202) 994-3799
Email: sbaird@gwu.edu
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Department of Global Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
George Washington University
950 New Hampshire Ave, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20052
Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics
Department of Global Health
Sarah Baird is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics in the Department of Global Health. She is also the Vice Chair of the Department of Global Health. She serves as the Program Director for the Global Health Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation MPH Program within the department. Dr. Baird is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Developmentn and an Affiliated Faculty at The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
Dr. Baird is a development economist whose research focuses on the microeconomics of health and education in low- and middle-income countries with an emphasis on gender and youth. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Lancet, and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Economist. Baird’s current work investigates different policy approaches to improve outcomes for adolescents ranging from cash transfers, to Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy, to social norms change. She received her PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in 2007.
Primary Research Fields:Development Economics, Program Design and Evaluation, Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics
Institute for International Economic Policy
