Dr Susan Kamundia

Susan Kamundia is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ACEIR and is based at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town. She holds a PhD in Economics from UCT; and a Master in Economics (Econometrics) degree and a Bachelors in Economics and Statistics degree, both obtained from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Susan's PhD thesis focused on maternal health care utilisation with a focus on how the spatial differences in the characteristics of individuals and households affect the utilisation of maternal health care. Her other area of focus centred on the inequality of utilisation of maternal health care between the poor and the non-poor in Kenya and a decomposition of the factors that explain the differences in utilisation between the two demographic groups. She also has evaluated the free maternal health care programme in Kenya and how this has translated to differences in maternal and child health outcomes. Her current research interests also include the measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality and gender gaps in labour force participation.