Margaret McConnell, PhD

Margaret McConnell is a faculty member in the department of population medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute where she is also the director of the Division of Child Health Research and Policy (CHeRP) and Center for Maternal Health Innovation, Research and Action (MIRA). She holds a secondary appointment as associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to better understand and evaluate policies designed to change health behaviors and improve health outcomes for marginalized populations, with a specific focus on maternal and child health. She has served as PI or co-PI on more than five randomized control trials within both low-income populations in the U.S. and within low-income countries. McConnell is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Program on the Global Demography of Aging at HCPDS.