David E. Bell Fellows

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars

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Program on the Global Demography of Aging Fellows

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Fellows

Nedialka Douptcheva

Nedialka Douptcheva is a Research Fellow at the Center and holds an MS in Population and International Health from Harvard School of Public Health and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.  Currently she is working on two projects including population health in Kuwait, and the health effects of coal burning bans in different cities in Ireland.  Some of her other research interests include the use of information technology to increase access to health care in low resource settings.  Her Master's thesis focused on the gaps in human resources for health and examined how those can be supplemented by new advancements in technology.

Allison Herling Ruark

Allison Herling Ruark is a Research Fellow in the AIDS Prevention Research Project. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Williams College and an M.S. in Public Health from Oregon State University. She has conducted research with youth in Uganda about the sociocultural context of delay of sexual debut and has also worked or conducted research in Kenya, Morocco, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. Her current research focuses on youth sexual behavior in the context of HIV prevention, the timing of sexual debut, the transition to adulthood among adolescents and links between youth and adult sexual behavior.