Elodie Djemaï

Elodie Djemaï serves as a Lecturer in Economic Sciences at Paris-Dauphine University since 2011, with research centered on health, poverty, and demographic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Burkina Faso. Her work bridges development economics with public health through rigorous empirical analysis of large-scale field data.

Education:

• Doctorate in Economics, University of Toulouse 1 (supervised by Jean-Paul Azam)
• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Paris-Dauphine (supervised by Flore Gubert)

Djemaï’s research examines infrastructure-health linkages (e.g., roads spreading HIV), socio-demographic determinants of child health, malaria prevention technology adoption, and air pollution impacts. Her methodology combines econometric analysis with on-ground data collection across multiple African nations, consistently prioritizing policy-relevant questions for resource-constrained settings. Recent publications demonstrate expanding scope into pandemic response (SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence) while maintaining core focus on poverty-health interlinkages.

Publication trends reveal sustained engagement with Burkina Faso-based studies (2022-2024), increasingly addressing climate-health intersections (wood fuel pollution) and infrastructure-wellbeing relationships. Earlier foundational work established critical insights into HIV transmission networks and women’s empowerment across generations.

Her scholarly output appears in premier journals including World Development, Journal of Health Economics, and PLoS ONE, reflecting interdisciplinary recognition across economics, epidemiology, and development studies. Collaborative patterns show consistent partnerships with researchers like Patrick De Vreyer and Yannick Renard on multi-institutional African field projects.