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IFORD
At present, IFORD has just seven core faculty. Even at this small size, IFORD is the leading institute for demographic training in French-speaking Africa, training students from 25 countries.
Cornell
A number of Cornell’s PDP affiliates have interest or expertise in sub-Saharan Africa. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, a native of Cameroon, where IFORD is located, is the director of Cornell@IFORD. He has collaborated with IFORD in the past, including during his recent sabbatical when he supervised the research of five students.
The project benefits from the experience of several other PDP affiliates. Among these, Mary Kritz and Doug Gurak have experience in the region. David Sahn leads a global research team that investigates the connections between population and development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cornell’s PDP currently has a crop of advanced graduate students and affiliates with language and research skills that make them effective mentors of students at IFORD. Among these, Sarah Giroux has recently received a small grant from DHS to support innovative analyses of DHS data, and she has been working on demographic inequality and on the dividends from demographic transitions. Vongai Kandiwa, a native of Zimbabwe with a background in economics and demography, is doing research on the potential macroeconomic buffering of inequality associated with the practice of fosterage. Della Appouh, a native of Ghana, has experience in social network analysis in the study of HIV/AIDS.
Among nonfaculty affiliates, Françoise Vermeylen, a native of Belgium, has great expertise in multilevel and fixed-effects modeling and is instrumental in introducing IFORD’s affiliates to these methods.