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Dr Marcella Vigneri

Research Fellow

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

I am a quantitative, development economist, with over 15 years experience in policy relevant, data driven, research. After completing my doctorate in Economics from Oxford University, where I was affiliated to the Centre for the Study of African Economies, I spent seven years working for a range of international organisations (the World Bank/FAO, the Overseas Development Institute, Oxfam GB, the International Cocoa Initiative, and a 9-year research collaboration with Ghana Strategy Support Programme of the International Food Policy Research Institute) applying my research skills to policy relevant problems.

In September 2017, I decided to return to academia and join LSHTM, first as a research fellow for CEDIL (Centre of Excellence for Impact Development and Learning), an FCDO/UKAID funded research consortium on innovative methods in impact evaluation and evidence synthesis. In 2022, I joined the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease working with the Environmental Health Group. Here, I worked on a World Vision programme to end open defecation in Southern Malawi through a set of sanitation and hygiene activities against which I supported setting up an evaluation design. In May 2023, I moved to the Department of Global Health Development (GHD) working on an ESRC grant which I co-lead with the International Security and Development Centre in Berlin. The grant uses secondary data from ACLED and VACs to etimate the casual pathways from violent societies to violence against children. In GHD I also collaborate on the MIDEQ research hub conducting quantitative analysis on corridors of South South migration.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I have been seminar leader for Principle of Social Research and for Health Services in Low and Middle Income Countries.

I have tought impact evaluation methods, research design in gender based violence and middle level theory applications for knowledge transfer for various short course aimed at international development practitioners.

I have also led a seminar on seminar on 'WASH impact studies' for the Environmental Health Policy module.

I am currently enrolled in Level 1 of the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCiLT)

Research

Political violence and child protection,

Adolescent wellbeing,

Economic interventions to improve public health outcomes in humanitarian settings,

Climate shocks and WASH-related violence against women,

Hazardous work, labour exploitation and child labour

Middle level theories for intervention development

Research Area
Public health
Environmental Health
Impact evaluation
Country
Ghana
Malawi
Tanzania
Mali
Cote d'Ivoire
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Epidemiology and development economics two sides of the same coin in impact evaluation
VIGNERI, M; Clarke, M; EXLEY, J; Tugwell, P; Welch, V; White, H;
2021
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
The Science in the Middle: Middle Level Theory in International Development Evaluation
VIGNERI, M;
2021
Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL)
The cocoa coast: The board-managed cocoa sector in Ghana
Kolavalli, S; VIGNERI, M;
2017
International Food Policy Research Institute
Cocoa in Ghana: Shaping the Success of an Economy
Kolavalli, S; VIGNERI, M;
2011
Yes, Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic Continent
Climate changes and nutrition sustainibility
Frittitta, L; VIGNERI, M;
2023
Journal of endocrinological investigation
Timely evaluation in international development
VIGNERI, M;
2022
Centre for Excellence and Development Impact and Learning
Using data differently and using different data
Almås, I; Attanasio, O; Jalan, J; Oteiza, F; VIGNERI, M;
2018
Journal of Development Effectiveness
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