Project description DEENESFRITPL Measuring the effect of women’s participation in decision-making on child policies How exactly are child health and development related to women’s representation in political decision-making? Current evidence is almost exclusively observational. The EU-funded EPOCH project will investigate the exact mechanisms linking both dimensions. The focus will be on how women’s political representation in child health and development could be important for advancing the twin Sustainable Development Goals of ending preventable deaths of children under five years of age and ensuring women’s full and effective participation at all levels of decision-making. The project’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow will gain knowledge and new skills and competencies, positioning them as a leading interdisciplinary scholar of demography and population health. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Although increasing women’s representation in political decision-making has the potential to significantly improve child health and development in LMIC, existing evidence is almost exclusively observational with little to know knowledge on the exact mechanisms linking both dimensions. To address this important knowledge gap, the EPOCH project will use a highly inter-disciplinary approach in combination with state-of-the-art quasi-experimental methods and detailed cross-national information of electoral outcomes with micro-data on child health and development. Strong evidence on the effects of women’s political representation on child health and development could be important for advancing the twin Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending preventable deaths of children under five years of age and ensuring women’s full and effective participation at all levels of decision-making. After working several years in the United States and Latin America, for the Marie Curie Reintegration Fellowship, the applicant will return to Europe to work at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute / University of Basel under the supervision of Prof. Günther Fink, a worldwide leading researcher on child health and development in LMIC. The applicant will gain knowledge of a new promising research field and gain new skills and competencies in the form of quasi-experimental methods for policy evaluation, publishing in high-impact general discipline journals, dissemination as well as writing of major grants. The applicant will enrich the host institutions by providing teaching and supervision activities as well as by fostering research collaborations with Latin America. The planned activities will position the applicant as a leading inter-disciplinary scholar of demography and population health with excellent prospects for attracting a major research grant, leading an independent research group and/or getting a tenure track position at a leading research university in Europe. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthsocial sciencessociologydemography Keywords Health Women Political Equity Children Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator SCHWEIZERISCHES TROPEN UND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUT Net EU contribution € 191 149,44 Address KREUZSTRASSE 2 4123 Allschwil Switzerland See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Nordwestschweiz Basel-Landschaft Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 191 149,44
