Anushé Hassan

Biographic Data

ID3862569
NAMEAnushé Hassan
GIVEN NAMESAnushé
FAMILY NAMEHassan
SIGNATUREHASSAN A
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-3649-3049
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • How can complex interventions be adapted to context? A qualitative analysis of the implementation of DREAMS in three Kenyan settings

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, Alizée Mclorg et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    In Kenya, the DREAMS Partnership (“Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe”) aims to reduce new HIV cases among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW; aged 10–24) through a comprehensive programme of interventions. The impact of DREAMS varies across settings but reasons for this are not well understood. One potential reason is the differential implementation of DREAMS interventions due to on-the-ground adaptations made by …

  • Childcare in Transition

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, D W Lawson et al.ARTICLEDemography2026

    Highlights This study uses novel data on multiple childcare types from both kin and nonkin in two culturally similar communities with varying market integration. It tests the hypothesis that market integration is associated with reduced kin support. Who provides support and the type of support vary by level of market integration. Market integration disrupts childcare support from paternal but not maternal kin. Distant kin and nonkin substitute fo…

  • Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers

    Radim Chvaja, Laure Spake et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2026References: 102

    Data and statistical script: The statistical script associated with this study is made public https://osf.io/6mpbe/. However, since the data we use in this study are part of larger project and will be made public in a future, we cannot currently share the raw dataset. Therefore, we provide access to the processed dataset prepared for analyses. Reader may go through the full script or skip the data curation part directly to load prepared dataset a…

  • Religious parents receive more alloparental aid in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessTheodore Samore, Richard Sosis et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2026

    Researchers have long speculated about the evolutionary benefits of religiosity. One explanation for the evolution of religious ritual is that rituals signal commitment to co-religionists. As a major domain of prosocial behaviour, alloparental care – or care directed at children by non-parents – is a plausible benefit of religious signalling. The religious alloparenting hypothesis posits that parents who signal religious commitment receive greate…

  • Children's Caregiving and Growth in Northwestern Tanzania

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, D W Lawson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2025

    Receiving care from individuals other than one's mother (i.e., allomothering) is a universal aspect of raising children, but whether and how such care impacts children's health remains subject to debate. Existing studies in low‐income societies largely use broad proxies for caregiving behaviors rather than measuring childcare activities, which may mask variation in allomothering and, thus, its impact on children's health. Using data collected to …

  • Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness

    Open AccessEmily H Emmott, Yasuo Ihara et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2025Cited by: 1References: 7

    Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Japanese adolescents may experience more identity exploration/confusion compared to Western counterparts, but the reasons behind these findings remain unclear. This comparative study investigates how adolescents in England and Japan perceive and engage with their environments, and aims to id…

  • Household structure in Ghana

    Open AccessJosephine Akua Ackah Baafi, Josephine Akua Ackah et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2025References: 33

    BACKGROUNDThe nuclear convergence hypothesis proposes that development and urbanisation lead to increasing proportions of nuclear families.We explore this hypothesis in Ghana by charting household living arrangements as captured in censuses and surveys. OBJECTIVETo classify household structure in Ghana and track trends to test whether households converge towards nucleation during processes of development and urbanisation. METHODSWe employ two met…

  • Nuclearization of maternal support networks in the UK and the US during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, L Spake et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2024

    The social isolation resulting from governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic likely limited support available to mothers. Evidence suggests tasks like childcare and domestic work fell disproportionately on mothers during the pandemic, with consequences for their wellbeing. We explore how the pandemic affected emotional and practical support available to mothers between March and August 2020 and whether changes in support are associated wit…

  • Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries

    Open AccessL Spake, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2024

  • Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers

    Open AccessJohn H Shaver, Radim Chvaja et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2024

    OBJECTIVES: Human childrearing is cooperative, with women often able to achieve relatively high fertility through help from many individuals. Previous work has documented tremendous socioecological variation in who supports women in childrearing, but less is known about the intracultural correlates of variation in allomaternal support. In the highly religious, high-fertility setting of The Gambia, we studied whether religious mothers have more ch…

  • Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility

    L Spake, Anushé Hassan et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2022

    In this issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior, scholars from multiple disciplines offer comments on Jenkins ' Fertility and Faith (Jenkins, 2020).The debate, and Jenkins' response to the commentaries, contribute to moving scholarship forward in an often-neglected area in the scientific study of religion.The book tackles an extensive literature, synthesizing work on several topics: drivers of secularization, drivers of fertility decline, the relatio…

  • Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessD W Lawson, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2021

  • Fathers favour sons, mothers don't discriminate

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2019Cited by: 5References: 7

  • Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain 'child marriage' in northwestern Tanzania

    Open AccessB Schaffnit, Anushé Hassan et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2019Cited by: 3References: 34

  • Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty, and poor child health in northern Tanzania

    Open AccessD W Lawson, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2017

    OBJECTIVES: The importance of fathers in ensuring child health in rural developing populations is questioned by anthropologists and population health scientists. Existing literature focuses on paternal death and child mortality. A relative lack of studies consider alternative forms of father absence and/or more subtle health outcomes. Here we determine the frequency and form of father absence in northern Tanzania, and its relationship to househol…