Bryden Sandifer is a Research Associate with the Latin America Program at the Stimson Center. Her research focuses on regional health policy, gender and labor economics, and human mobility in Latin America.
Prior to joining Stimson, Bryden worked on the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project, on McLarty Associates’ Northern Latin America team, and with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Latin America Program. She has held research fellowships with the Institute for International Economic Policy, where she analyzed the impact of informal domestic labor on women in South America, and George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her professional and academic work includes field research in Ecuador on healthcare access for migrant populations as well as educational and development work in Spain and India.
Bryden holds an MA in International Development Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Latin America from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a BA in International Development and Spanish from the University of Virginia.
