Founding Columnist

Margaret McConnell

Margaret McConnell is an assistant professor of global health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. She currently researches policies designed to change health and savings behavior, involving field trials in Africa and Latin America related to incentives and behavior change; adherence to medication; barriers to the demand for high-quality reproductive, maternal and child health care; and the design of programs to overcome household barriers to child nutrition. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.