Doctoral Dissertation Research: Corporate Contributions to Childhood Public Health Outcomes

博士论文研究：企业对儿童公共卫生成果的贡献

• 批准号: 2115268
• 负责人: Rebecca Lester
• 金额: $ 2.27万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Corporate; Contributions

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). Malnutrition and other stressors have been shown to hinder childhood growth and development. In turn, stunted growth is associated with reduced brain development, diminished learning capacity, poor school performance, and declines in long-term career outcomes. In settings characterized by compromised growth and development, corporations may philanthropically contribute resources to assist populations of impacted children. This doctoral dissertation project examines the motivations and practices of private corporations as they insert themselves into domains of public health. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the findings of this research enhances understandings of the effects of privatizing health interventions in disadvantaged communities. In partnership with key stakeholders, this research also generates proposals for how to improve or reconsider these interventions as strategies for addressing broader development priorities.This research examines how corporate philanthropic programs generate and operationalize knowledge about childhood stunting through community-based interventions, how such knowledge-making sits in dialogue with larger social tensions around identities and development, and how these interventions impact their targeted beneficiaries. The project has multiple objectives. First, the investigators examine variation in the ways that childhood stunting is conceptualized simultaneously as a biological and social problem. Second, the project shows how aspects of identity and heritage are represented in discourse about childhood growth and development. In addition, the practices of corporate philanthropists are examined, specifically the ways they frame the social problems to align with the motivations for interventions. Finally, the investigation examines how private investments in public health interventions affect the growth and development of children. To answer these questions the investigation relies on interviews and direct observations of corporate executives, public health officials, corporate philanthropy administrators and fieldworkers, and targeted beneficiaries of these efforts. In addition, the investigation includes archival research to assess the contexts in which philanthropic efforts impact public health outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。营养不良和其他压力因素已被证明会阻碍儿童的生长和发育。反过来，发育迟缓与大脑发育减少，学习能力下降，学校表现不佳以及长期职业成果下降有关。在增长和发展受到影响的环境中，公司可能会慈善捐助资源，帮助受影响的儿童群体。这个博士论文项目研究的动机和私营公司的做法，因为他们插入到公共卫生领域。除了为人类学研究生提供实证科学数据收集和分析方法的培训资金外，本研究的结果还提高了对弱势社区卫生干预措施私有化影响的理解。通过与主要利益相关者的合作，本研究还提出了如何改进或重新考虑这些干预措施作为解决更广泛的发展优先事项的战略的建议。本研究探讨了企业慈善计划如何通过基于社区的干预措施产生和操作有关儿童发育迟缓的知识，这种知识的产生如何与围绕身份和发展的更大社会紧张局势进行对话，以及这些干预措施如何影响目标受益人。该项目有多个目标。首先，研究人员检查的方式，儿童发育迟缓的概念，同时作为一个生物和社会问题的变化。第二，该项目展示了身份和遗产的各个方面是如何在关于儿童成长和发展的话语中表现出来的。此外，企业慈善家的做法进行检查，特别是他们的方式框架的社会问题，以配合干预的动机。最后，调查研究了公共卫生干预措施的私人投资如何影响儿童的生长和发育。为了回答这些问题，调查依赖于对公司高管、公共卫生官员、公司慈善管理人员和实地工作人员以及这些努力的目标受益者的采访和直接观察。此外，调查还包括档案研究，以评估慈善事业影响公共卫生成果的背景。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。