Marcia Caldas de Castro Marcia recently received her doctorate in demography from OPR. Much of her research, in collaboration with Burt Singer, Roberto Monte-Mor, and Juerg Utzinger, focused on the interrelationships between macro-political, social, and economic polices, human migration, agricultural development, and malaria transmission on the Brazilian Amazon frontier, incorporating remote sensing data and ethnographic information. 

In collaboration with Cornell University and the Minas Gerais Federal University (Brazil), she is co-investigator in a research proposal submitted to NIH that aims to understand the health and environmental relationships in the Brazilian Amazon, which ultimately would result in data collection in 2005/6.

In addition, Caldas de Castro worked on malaria risk mapping in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The results were used as background for a research proposal for urban malaria control in Dar es Salaam that was submitted to and approved by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


 

 

 

The visiting fellows program has brought scholars from the collaborating centers to OPR since the program began in 1999. These scholars utilize a suite of offices in Wallace Hall and enjoy access to the resources available to OPR research affiliates, including the excellent computing environment and library and the demography seminar. Fellows who are in residence during the academic year also have the privilege of auditing classes by securing permission of the instructor.

Visiting fellows since 1999 include:

Richard Ameyaw Ampadu
Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana, “Migration, Urbanization and Sustainable Development: The Role of Urban Agriculture in Ghana.”

Maria Elena Benítez-Pérez
University of Havana, Centro de Estudios Demograficos (CEDEM), Cuba, “The Internal Migration in Cuba from a Family Perspective.”

Mariela Gisela Ceva
Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Social Itineraries of Italian Workers in the United States of America and Argentina (1895-1995).”

Mark Collinson
Agincourt Health and Population Unit, South Africa, “Temporary Female Migration and Labour Force Participation in Rural South Africa.”

Antonio Aja Diaz
University of Havana, Center for International Migration Studies (CEMI), Havana, Cuba, “Cuban Emigration to the United States and Its Relationship with the Internal Migration Cycle in the Country of Origin.”

Otilia Barros-Diaz
University of Havana, Centro de Estudios Demograficos (CEDEM), Havana Cuba, “Differential and Selective Migrations with a Gender Perspective: A Case Study in Cuba.”

Carmen Elisa Florez
Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Bogota, Colombia, “Urban Informal Employment as an Income Generation Strategy: Does It Work? Evidence from Colombia.”

Roberto Luis Monte-Mór
Federal University of Minas Gerais, CEDEPLAR, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, “Migration, Urbanization and Malaria on the Amazon River.”

Nelson Obirih-Opareh
Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana, “Impact of Decentralisation and Privatisation on Urban Governance and Environmental Management.”

Eleanor Preston-Whyte
University of Natal, Population and Poverty Studies Programme, Durban, South Africa, “Primary and Secondary Data Analysis on Household Migration in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.”

Norma Montes Rodriguez
University of Havana, Centro de Estudios Demograficos (CEDEM), Havana, Cuba, “La Urbanizacion y la Concentracion de la Poblacion Rural Dispersa por Niveles y Provincias de Cuba entre 1981 y 1995.”

Kanchana Tanglonchatip
Mahidol University, Institute for Population and Social Research, Bangkok, Thailand, “Comparative Analysis of Rural-Urban Migration in Thailand.”

Postdoctoral fellowship support was provided for Marcia Caldas de Castro, who recently received her doctorate in demography from OPR. You can read more about Marcia on the left hand side of this page.