Marion Ravit is now Research Fellow at the CERDI
We are glad to welcome Marion Ravit to the team. She is an international expert in health issues at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development.
We are pleased to welcome Marion Ravit as a Research Fellow, an expert in international health issues, who is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. She has been working with our team for years.
A significant expertise in research on women’s health economics
She has strong expertise in epidemiology, maternal health and health economics, she conducts research on health care access and health inequalities in the Global South, mostly in Africa and Asia. She has special skills in impact evaluation and data management. Furthermore, she holds a PhD in Public Health from Sorbonne Université. Previously, she obtained a Master in health economics at the School of Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne.
She has participated and supervised several international research projects (Quali-Dec, maternal health care prepayment in Cameroon) funded by Horizon 2020, the WHO, or the AFD Group. Her practical experience covers more than seven countries. She was awarded a price for her innovative research by the Université Paris Cité, she is also a member of the evaluation committee of the EHESP, the French National School of Public Health.
Ongoing research projects
She is now in Manille, where she develops a research project on menstrual hygiene and period poverty to find sustainable solutions.
She also works with Martine Audibert in the framework of the PAIRES research program, a joint program of the IRD and AFD Group. They supervise an impact evaluation on maternal health care prepayment in Cameroon.
She will be able to share her expertise on global health issues, participative science and as a practitioner with the team and pursue new research projects.
Welcome to the team!
See her Google Scholar page for more information
Recent publications
Kabore, Charles, Simon Tiendrebeogo, Ana Pilar Betran, Marion Ravit, Michael Robson, and Alexandre Dumont. “Can the Robson Ten Group Classification System Improve the Understanding of Maternity Care in Low-Income Countries? A Cross-Sectional Study in Burkina Faso.” BMJ Open 15, no. 3 (March 2025): e086892. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086892.
Ladur, Alice Norah, Uzochukwu Egere, Marion Ravit, Florence Mgawadere, Christopher Murray, Sarah Ann White, Mohammed Hauwa, et al. “A Blended Learning Approach for Capacity Strengthening to Improve the Quality of Integrated HIV, TB, and Malaria Services during Antenatal and Postnatal Care in LMICs: A Feasibility Study.” BMC Medical Education 25, no. 1 (January 8, 2025): 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06633-2.
Audibert, Martine, Anaïs N’Landu, Marion Ravit, Bertille Raffalli, Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Valéry Ridde, and Alexandre Dumont. “Forfait Obstétrical et Inégalités Dans l’accès Aux Soins Maternels En Mauritanie.” Revue Économique Vol. 71, no. 6 (November 4, 2020): 1045–67. https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.716.1045.