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William Rudgard

Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention

William is a senior postdoctoral researcher in global health at the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), a Research Associate at the Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

His research evaluates and models cost-effective combinations of interventions to improve child and adolescent health and wellbeing across Africa. He also investigates child climate risk and resilience leveraging social survey data, population gridded data, and satellite climate data.

He works with the Accelerate Research Hub as well as global impact partners including UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and government ministries in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

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  • E:  william.rudgard@spi.ox.ac.uk
    LinkedIn:  william-rudgard
  • Nuffield College
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    Oxford
    OX1 1NF

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Publications

Rudgard WE, Obiesie S (equal first author), Desmond C, Casale M, Cluver L. Assessing the cost-effectiveness of economic strengthening and parenting support for preventing violence against adolescents in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: An economic modelling study using non-randomised data. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. 3(8): e0001666. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001666

Rudgard WE, Saminathen MG (equal first author), Orkin M, Banougnin BH, Toska E. Protective factors for adolescent sexual risk behaviours and experiences linked to HIV infection in South Africa: a three-wave longitudinal analysis of caregiving, education, food security, and social protection. BMC Public Health. 2023. 23, 1452. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16373-5

Rudgard WE, Dzumbunu SP, Yates R, Toska E, Stockl H, Hertzog L, Emaway D, Cluver LD. Multiple Impacts of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: a Quasi-Experimental Study 2002-2013. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2022. 71(3), 308-316. doi: 1016/j.jadohealth.2022.04.010