Rachel Silver
Biographic Data
| ID | 95251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Silver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Silver |
| SIGNATURE | SILVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7789-0713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Free of Mind, Though I Am a Refugee”
This study explored the significance of, and possibilities for, graduate education in protracted refugee situations. It focused on Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, where just 2% of students have access to higher education of any kind. Drawing on theorization of migrant temporalities and coloniality in education in emergencies, we considered the implications of graduate schooling for individual aspirations and the politics of knowledge production. We…
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of influenza and Sars-CoV-2 virus among patients with acute febrile illness in selected sites of Ethiopia 2021–2022
Background: Viral respiratory pathogens have become the leading cause of acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AFI). We determined the fraction of AFI attributable to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in Ethiopia, along with an understanding of their epidemiological characteristics. Methods: From February 2021 to June 2022, we enrolled patients meeting an AFI case definition (age >5 years with fever ≥38°C) who presented at one of four selected sentinel …
Nuancing Representation of Global Girlhoods
This article explores the ethical implications of methods that seek to nuance mainstream representations of girls in the Global South during COVID-19. In response to what we observed as monolithic and highly sexualized framings of 'Third-world' girls during the initial years of the coronavirus pandemic (2020-2023), we designed a two-part study that (a) examined the circulation and implications of discursive tropes on gendered risk with a focus on…
Counternarratives of Covid-19
This article challenges mainstream discourses of girls' education during COVID-19 that sexualize girls in the Global South and reproduce racialized differences. We draw on a longitudinal cohort study of Malawian young women conducted from 2020 to 2023 to offer counternarratives of the intersecting risks to school retention. We argue that the pandemic was less a rupture for girls' status quo than an intensification of the conditions that already c…
A toolkit for planning and implementing acute febrile illness (AFI) surveillance
Acute febrile illness (AFI) is a broad clinical syndrome with a wide range of potential infectious etiologies. The lack of accessible, standardized approaches to conducting AFI etiologic investigations has contributed to significant global gaps in data on the epidemiology of AFI. Based on lessons learned from years of supporting AFI sentinel surveillance worldwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the toolkit for plan…
Infant massage as a stress management technique for parents of hospitalized extremely preterm infants
Mothers of infants born extremely preterm requiring prolonged medical intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at high risk of developing stress. Parent‐administered infant massage is a well‐established, safe intervention for preterm infants with many developmental benefits, but the published literature has mostly examined its impact on infants and parents through self‐reported or observational measures of stress. The aim of th…
Returns at Risk
Since COVID-19 closed schools in March 2020, international development experts, politicians, and celebrities across the globe have raised alarm about the pandemic’s impacts on girls’ education, particularly in Africa. These warnings, which link school closures with untimely pregnancy and marriage, reflect belief in the multiplicative power of girls’ schooling and a long-standing concern with the sexual practices of Black and African girls. In thi…
Syndemic sex education
In this article, we consider what would happen if the resources and energy devoted to formal, school-based sex education were redirected into a syndemic sex education approach that centres the individual, social, and structural conditions that shape adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Drawing on a case study of youth in Malawi, we argue that sex education in its current form fails to broadly prevent negative SRH outcomes and meanin…
Etiology of acute febrile illness in the peruvian amazon as determined by modular formatted quantitative PCR
Project 1791, Registro de Proyectos de Investigación en Salud Pública (PRISA), Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú
Undoing Aid
The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative-led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil society actors claimed the lost funding would dev…
The virgin and the mother
This article demonstrates how discursive constructions of pregnant schoolgirls produce social and material consequences for girls in Southern Africa. Critical feminist scholars have argued that diverse actors frame girls across the global South as either monolithic, sexualised victims and sites for intervention or as hyper-agents, uniquely capable of changing the world. In either case, pregnancy is pathologised and girls’ education is put forth a…
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers’ work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic research in Zomba, Malawi, we show how teachers and mother groups used NGO-sponsored activities to surv…
Readmission Policy and State-NGO-Funder Relations in Malawi
Nothing but Time
This article explores state/NGO/funder relations in Africa through an ethnographic case study of Malawi's Readmission Policy. The Policy, which banned the permanent expulsion of pregnant girls from school in 1993, underwent a formal, government-led review in 2016. By focusing attention on the daily work of "middle figures"-the mid-level civil servants, NGO representatives, and consultants who participated in the policy reform process-this article…
Geographical Variation in Mortality From Conditions Amenable to Medical Intervention in England and Wales
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers’ work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic research in Zomba, Malawi, we show how teachers and mother groups used NGO-sponsored activities to surv…
Nothing but Time
This article explores state/NGO/funder relations in Africa through an ethnographic case study of Malawi's Readmission Policy. The Policy, which banned the permanent expulsion of pregnant girls from school in 1993, underwent a formal, government-led review in 2016. By focusing attention on the daily work of "middle figures"-the mid-level civil servants, NGO representatives, and consultants who participated in the policy reform process-this article…
Undoing Aid
The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative-led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil society actors claimed the lost funding would dev…
The virgin and the mother
This article demonstrates how discursive constructions of pregnant schoolgirls produce social and material consequences for girls in Southern Africa. Critical feminist scholars have argued that diverse actors frame girls across the global South as either monolithic, sexualised victims and sites for intervention or as hyper-agents, uniquely capable of changing the world. In either case, pregnancy is pathologised and girls’ education is put forth a…
Geographical Variation in Mortality From Conditions Amenable to Medical Intervention in England and Wales
Readmission Policy and State-NGO-Funder Relations in Malawi
Nothing but Time
This article explores state/NGO/funder relations in Africa through an ethnographic case study of Malawi's Readmission Policy. The Policy, which banned the permanent expulsion of pregnant girls from school in 1993, underwent a formal, government-led review in 2016. By focusing attention on the daily work of "middle figures"-the mid-level civil servants, NGO representatives, and consultants who participated in the policy reform process-this article…
Girls’ education and sexual regulation in Malawi
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers’ work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic research in Zomba, Malawi, we show how teachers and mother groups used NGO-sponsored activities to surv…
The virgin and the mother
This article demonstrates how discursive constructions of pregnant schoolgirls produce social and material consequences for girls in Southern Africa. Critical feminist scholars have argued that diverse actors frame girls across the global South as either monolithic, sexualised victims and sites for intervention or as hyper-agents, uniquely capable of changing the world. In either case, pregnancy is pathologised and girls’ education is put forth a…
Returns at Risk
Since COVID-19 closed schools in March 2020, international development experts, politicians, and celebrities across the globe have raised alarm about the pandemic’s impacts on girls’ education, particularly in Africa. These warnings, which link school closures with untimely pregnancy and marriage, reflect belief in the multiplicative power of girls’ schooling and a long-standing concern with the sexual practices of Black and African girls. In thi…
Syndemic sex education
In this article, we consider what would happen if the resources and energy devoted to formal, school-based sex education were redirected into a syndemic sex education approach that centres the individual, social, and structural conditions that shape adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Drawing on a case study of youth in Malawi, we argue that sex education in its current form fails to broadly prevent negative SRH outcomes and meanin…
Etiology of acute febrile illness in the peruvian amazon as determined by modular formatted quantitative PCR
Project 1791, Registro de Proyectos de Investigación en Salud Pública (PRISA), Instituto Nacional de Salud, Perú
Undoing Aid
The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative-led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil society actors claimed the lost funding would dev…
A toolkit for planning and implementing acute febrile illness (AFI) surveillance
Acute febrile illness (AFI) is a broad clinical syndrome with a wide range of potential infectious etiologies. The lack of accessible, standardized approaches to conducting AFI etiologic investigations has contributed to significant global gaps in data on the epidemiology of AFI. Based on lessons learned from years of supporting AFI sentinel surveillance worldwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the toolkit for plan…
Infant massage as a stress management technique for parents of hospitalized extremely preterm infants
Mothers of infants born extremely preterm requiring prolonged medical intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at high risk of developing stress. Parent‐administered infant massage is a well‐established, safe intervention for preterm infants with many developmental benefits, but the published literature has mostly examined its impact on infants and parents through self‐reported or observational measures of stress. The aim of th…
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of influenza and Sars-CoV-2 virus among patients with acute febrile illness in selected sites of Ethiopia 2021–2022
Background: Viral respiratory pathogens have become the leading cause of acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AFI). We determined the fraction of AFI attributable to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in Ethiopia, along with an understanding of their epidemiological characteristics. Methods: From February 2021 to June 2022, we enrolled patients meeting an AFI case definition (age >5 years with fever ≥38°C) who presented at one of four selected sentinel …
Nuancing Representation of Global Girlhoods
This article explores the ethical implications of methods that seek to nuance mainstream representations of girls in the Global South during COVID-19. In response to what we observed as monolithic and highly sexualized framings of 'Third-world' girls during the initial years of the coronavirus pandemic (2020-2023), we designed a two-part study that (a) examined the circulation and implications of discursive tropes on gendered risk with a focus on…
Counternarratives of Covid-19
This article challenges mainstream discourses of girls' education during COVID-19 that sexualize girls in the Global South and reproduce racialized differences. We draw on a longitudinal cohort study of Malawian young women conducted from 2020 to 2023 to offer counternarratives of the intersecting risks to school retention. We argue that the pandemic was less a rupture for girls' status quo than an intensification of the conditions that already c…
“Free of Mind, Though I Am a Refugee”
This study explored the significance of, and possibilities for, graduate education in protracted refugee situations. It focused on Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, where just 2% of students have access to higher education of any kind. Drawing on theorization of migrant temporalities and coloniality in education in emergencies, we considered the implications of graduate schooling for individual aspirations and the politics of knowledge production. We…
Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)