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Key Players: Not just the most connected nodes

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One of the most common uses of Social Network Analysis in developing country contexts to in identifying central actors within a community who are well-connected and perhaps most able to spread a new idea to others in a community quickly.… Continue Reading →

Social Network Analysis Key Players, Opinion Leaders, SNA

Friendship Nomination: An RCT to Increase Program Effectiveness with SNA

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Friendship Nomination is a cost-effective improvement that can easily be incorporated into a variety of programs based on findings from Social Network Analysis, but its effectiveness may be context specific. A recent paper by Kim, et. al., describes an experimental… Continue Reading →

Social Network Analysis Friendship Nomination, Opinion Leaders, SNA, Teaching

About me

I’m a post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and recently completed my PhD in Behavioral Science and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My research interests are solving problems by applying behavioral insights, modeling demand and choice behavior, and understanding how to drive behavior change at scale.

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