Annelise Gill-Wiehl

Areas of Interest

Annelise Gill-Wiehl studies how to increase the effectiveness, adoption, and affordability of engineering technologies in low- and middle-income countries and low-income communities to avert health and climate impacts. Underlying her research questions is a focus on gender and equity. For example, Gill-Wiehl investigates how to achieve clean cooking fuel transitions and the reductions in carbon emissions and personal exposure for the women cooking such transitions might yield. Over three billion people globally rely on smoky, polluting fuels to cook for their families. The smoke from these open fires damages health and produces carbon emissions. Clean stoves and fuels exist, but remain largely unaffordable for low income families in low income countries. Annelise Gill-Wiehl studies interventions to increase the use of clean stoves and fuels and decrease the amount of emissions and smoke the user inhales.

Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, she uses quantitative methods, deep ethnographic qualitative work, and scenario analysis. Over the past decade, she has led experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational study designs at her field site in Shirati, Tanzania, and has active projects in Ghana, Kenya, and Bangladesh.