Book Talk: Disability, Health and Human Development

Abstract: This book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing. The model is applied using internationally comparable panel survey data for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.

Speaker: Sophie Mitra is Professor of Economics at Fordham University. She is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Policy Studies at Fordham.

This is part of Fordham University’s Department of Economics Seminar series and the Seminar onDisability Research across Disciplines, a seminar series organized by the Faculty Working Group on Disability and funded by the Provost Office.