Sarah Baird, Ph.D., M.S.

Sarah Baird is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health.

A development economist, Dr. Baird’s focus on health, education, and poverty has involved her in issues as diverse as the schooling and health of young women in Malawi, community-driven development in Tanzania, deworming in Kenya, and global infant mortality. In Malawi, she is studying the impact of a cash transfer program on education, sexual behavior and the HIV/STD risk of school-aged women, while in Tanzania, she is examining the influence of income-generating projects on the health, nutrition, education, income and consumption levels of vulnerable populations. Dr. Baird also studied the impact on fluctuations in the business cycle on infant mortality around the world, and conducted field work in Vietnam on the ability of households to protect themselves against unexpected shocks. Prior to joining SPHHS in 2009, Dr. Baird was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California at San Diego, where she taught a “Corporate Strategy and the Environment” course.

Bachelor of Arts (Economics, Environmental science, Politics), Claremont McKenna College, 2001 Master of Science (Agricultural and resource economics), University of California at Berkeley, 2002 Doctor of Philosophy (Agricultural and resource economics), University of California at Berkeley, 2007

Pub 340: Global Health Study Design and Ethics, Department of Global Health PubH 341: Global Health Data Collection, Department of Global Health PubH 342: Global Health Data Analysis, Department of Global Health PubH 410: Advanced Topics: Leadership in the International Setting (doctoral seminar), Department of Global Health

Dr. Baird’s is currently conducting randomized evaluation studies in Malawi and Tanzania, as described above.

Dr. Baird is a peer reviewer for the Journal of African Economics and Economic Development of Cultural Change.