Kazuyo Machiyama BA MPH PhD

Research Fellow

My first degree was in Political Science from Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, graduating in 2002. I then spent two years in Uganda working at Embassy of Japan. After working at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Headquarters, I did evaluation of different types of ODA projects in JICA Indonesia Office. Afterwards, I earned MPH in International Health from Boston University in 2007 and then worked at WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific as a short-term professional in Noncommunicable Diseases Unit. I also worked in a Sudanese Refugee Camp in Northern Uganda and conducted study on fertility and child survival with African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO).

Affiliation

Teaching

I teach Demographic methods, Research Design and Analysis, and Basic Math.

Research

The primary aim of my thesis is re-assessment of fertilitytrends in 17 sub-Saharan African countries in the past two decades. I propose new methods of estimating fertility trends taking into accout common data errors. The second part of thesis focuses on examining changes in proximate determinants to explore to what extent changes in proxiamte determinants support the observed fertility trends.  My supervisors are Andy Sloggett and John Cleland.

My PhD is partially funded by Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. I have also received Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Fellowship 2009/2010 from USAID through ICF Macro.

Research areas

  • Fertility

Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Statistics

Other interests

  • MARCH
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