SSRC Staff

Jennifer Holdaway

Program Director,
China Environment and Health Initiative

Bio

Jennifer Holdaway is a Program Director whose work spans several fields related to development, including migration, environment and health. She has a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has taught in the political science departments at Brooklyn College and at Barnard College. Holdaway is also the Council’s China Representative and since 2008 she has been based in Beijing, where she is co-director of the Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD). She has written and edited a number of publications related to migration and gender, migration and education, migration and development, and environment and health. Current projects include a mapping of research on food safety in China as part of a collaboration with the Food Climate Research Network on the environmental and health impacts of China’s food system. Her most recent publication is a review of social science research on environment and health in China forthcoming in the China Quarterly in June 2013.

Programs and Projects

CEHI Web-based Resources
(Program Director)
Children of Immigrants in Schools
(Program Director)
China Environment and Health Initiative
(Program Director)
Education and Migration in Comparative Perspective
(Program Director)
Education and Migration in the United States
Forum on Health, Environment and Development
(Program Director)
Migration and Development
(Associate Program Director)
Migration and Development in China: 30 Years of Experience
(Program Director)
Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
(Associate Program Director)
Migration and Education
(Program Director)
Migration Program
(Associate Program Director)

Publications

Article/Essay
Jennifer Holdaway, Environment and Health Research in China: The State of the Field (June 2013).
Book
Huanjing yu Jiankang: kuaxueke shijiao [Environment and Health: Cross-disciplinary perspectives], eds. Jennifer Holdaway, Wuyi Wang, Jingzhong Ye and Shiqiu Zhang (May 2010).
Special Issue
Environment and Health in China: An Emerging Research Field, ed. Jennifer Holdaway (2010), http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918909121.

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