Anju Malhotra’s work at ICRW centers on advancing programmatic and policy research on issues that intersect gender, population and development.

 

Malhotra leads ICRW’s partnership with the World Bank to evaluate the impact of women’s economic empowerment programs. She also manages ICRW’s strategic partnership with the NIKE Foundation to increase opportunities for and investment in adolescent girls.

 

She serves on numerous expert panels, advisory groups and review boards for various development actors including USAID, WHO and Johns Hopkins University, and provides expert insight for a variety of media outlets including USA Today and The Indianapolis Star.  

 

Prior to joining ICRW in 1998, Malhotra served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland and was an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.

 

 

Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology and demography from the University of Michigan and B.A. from Cornell University

 

Social and economic development in the developing world; demography; adolescence; gender and development; reproductive health and rights; measurement and evaluation of women’s empowerment

Select Publications

 

Women Deliver for Development

 

Trading Women's Health & Rights: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health

 

Son Preference and Daughter Neglect in India: What Happens to Living Girls?

 

Women’s Empowerment as a Variable in International Development