PhD, Public Policy, HKS
WAPPP Intern, Cultural Bridge
Invest in Knowledge, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Gabriella Fleischman (PhD, Public Policy, HKS) will intern with Invest in Knowledge in Lilongwe, Malawi. Gabriella will be conducting a randomized controlled trial in the Summer of 2024 to understand the causes and consequences of social isolation among vulnerable women in Malawi. In seventy-one percent of societies worldwide, women move to the area where their husbands and their kin live at the time of marriage. For her dissertation research, Gabriella seeks to evaluate how women’s ability to enter social networks after moving to a new village for marriage affects their mental health and integration into social and financial networks in rural Malawi villages.