Maarten Voors

  • Going the Last Mile (with Evidence)

    Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Niccolò Meriggi Maarten Voors Desmond Kangbai

    A study by Yale’s Mushfiq Mobarak and his colleagues found that nurses on motorbikes with vaccine-stocked coolers could help increase vaccination rates in rural Sierra Leone, showing that it is possible to get health interventions to the most remote and under-resourced areas cost-effectively, in ways that help ensure that the interventions are taken up and used.

    A motorcycle carrying vaccine supplies along a dirt road

  • How COVID-19 Is Making Gender Inequality Worse in Low-Income Countries—and What to Do About It

    Madison Levine Niccolò Meriggi Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Vasudha Ramakrishna Maarten Voors

    Gender disparities in social and economic outcomes, already larger in the developing world than in rich countries, have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Policy action is badly needed to address the compounding of existing inequalities and protect the most vulnerable women.

    A Doctors Without Borders healthcare provider with a mother and her child at a mobile clinic in Sierra Leone in July 2020. Photo: Saidu Bah/AFP via Getty Images.