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Center & Institute Affiliations
Carolina Cardona, PhD ’22, MHS ’16, is a health economist who conducts research on women’s health across the life course, focusing on sexual and reproductive health outcomes and gender equality in resource-limited settings.
Research Interests
Women’s health, Sexual and reproductive health, Fertility, Women’s empowerment, Maternal, neonatal and child health, Family planning, Contraception, Health economics, Demography, Population dynamics
Experiences & Accomplishments
Dr. Carolina Cardona is a health economist whose academic and research pursuits are primarily centered on the field of economic demography, with a particular emphasis on investigating women’s health across the life course. In her research, she broadly seeks to apply a social determinants lens to investigate two areas 1) the influence of preferences and person-centered health services on fertility and mortality, and 2) how population changes, largely driven by fertility and mortality, affect economic growth and development. Most of her research has been conducted in the context of low-and middle-income countries, with fieldwork and research experience in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
Honors & Awards
- 2020–22 Fellowship in Reproductive Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.
- 2020–21 Fellowship in Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.
- 2020 Best Five Development Economics Paper, Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, Bolivian Academy of Economic Science.
- 2019–20 Young J. Kim Memorial Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.
- 2018-22 Endowed Student Support Fund, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- 2015–16 Fulbright Foreign Student Program. U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Select Publications
Peer reviewed publications below.
Cardona, Carolina, Funmilola OlaOlorun, Elizabeth Omulabi, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiogo, Amy Tsui, Philip Anglewicz (2022). The relationship between client dissatisfaction and contraceptive discontinuation among urban family planning clients in three sub-Saharan African countries. PLoS One, 17(8): e0271911.
Gummerson, Elizabeth, Carolina Cardona, Philip Anglewicz, Blake Zachary, Georges Guiella, Scott Radloff (2021). The wealth gradient and the effect of COVID-19 restrictions on income loss, food insecurity and health care access in four sub-Saharan African geographies. PLoS One, 16(12): e0260823.
Cardona, Carolina, David Bishai, Neha S. Anand, Yira N. Alfonso, Jonathon P. Leider, Mac J. McCullough, Beth Resnick (2021). County Health Outcomes Linkage to County Spending on Social Services, Infrastructure, and Law and Order. Social Science and Medicine-Population Health, 16(100930): 1-9.
Tsui, Amy O., Carolina Cardona, Varsha Srivatsan, Funmilola OlaOlorun, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Pierre Akilimali, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiogo, the PMA Agile Principal Investigators Group, Scott Radloff, Philip Anglewicz (2021). Is Client Reporting on Contraceptive Use Always Right? Results on Consistency and Change from a Multi-Country Study. Studies in Family Planning, 52(3):361-382.
Cardona, Carolina, David Bishai (2018). The Slowing Pace of Life Expectancy at Birth since 1950. BMC Public Health, 18(151): 1-7.