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Gautam N. Yadama

Dean

Professor

Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare

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Gautam N. Yadama

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 132

Telephone: 617-552-0866

Email: gautam.yadama@bc.edu

Education

  • B.S., Wilkes University
  • M.S.S.A., Case Western Reserve University
  • Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

Research Interests

Poverty and environment dynamics, and interventions to address associated social, economic, environment, and health outcomes

Expertise

  • Environmental Justice
  • Global Practice
  • Poverty
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Profile

Gautam N. Yadama is Professor and the Dean of Boston College School of Social Work. His research is focused on understanding poverty and environment dynamics, and interventions to address the attendant social, economic, environment, and health outcomes. He has implemented a randomized control trial to study the sustainability of new and efficient energy technologies in rural India to reduce household air pollution and improve health and wellbeing of women and children. His book, Fires, Fuel & the Fate of 3 Billion: State of the Energy Impoverished (Oxford University Press), outlines an argument for transdisciplinary research to tackle complex problems such as household air pollution that reside at the intersections of poverty, environment, and health. He is using social network analysis and community based system dynamics to study how interventions to reduce pollution are adopted and sustained by the poor in rural India. He is a member of the Implementation Science Network on Clean Cooking at the Fogarty Institute of the National Institutes of Health, USA.

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