Vedavati Patwardhan

Vedavati Patwardhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and Management, with concentrations in Demography and Economics. Vedavati’s research focuses on program evaluation, gender and health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In her dissertation, Vedavati examines the relationship between female-centric policy interventions such as conditional cash transfers and child nutrition. Her dissertation work also examines female decision-making over household income, specifically the role of weather shocks, income source and family structure, in Malawi. Vedavati has a Master of Arts in Global & International Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Fergusson College, University of Pune, India. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods from the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology at the University of Washington. In 2019, she received a Certificate from the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse University (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs). Previously, Vedavati spent four years as a Team Leader and Production Editor at Springer Nature India.