Seema Jayachandran is an associate professor of economics at Northwestern University. She also co-chairs the health sector of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and serves as a reviewing editor at Science and associate editor at the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her current projects focus on environmental conservation, health, education, fertility, and female employment in India, Uganda, Zambia, and Burkina Faso.