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The Institute has fostered a significant community of more than 350 Faculty Associates at the University of British Columbia and even wider global research network of collaboration.

External collaborations with individual researchers and with research institutions and centres continued to advance the reputation of the Peter Wall Institute for fundamental, interdisciplinary research, with more planned every year.

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Siwan Anderson
Economics

Siwan Anderson is featured in Chatelaine Magazine's special issue "Women We Love" for her groundbreaking epidemiological work "Missing Women: Age and Disease," developed in conjunction with Debraj Ray. Using statistics on mortality and population, they discovered that as many as 200 million women, primarily in China, India and sub-Saharan Africa, are missing or dead due to inequality largely related to health care.

The research suggests that excess female mortality is a much more universal phenomenon than previously thought, and that while gender bias at birth does exist, it accounts for only a fraction of the colossal numbers of missing women.

Siwan Anderson was appointed 2003-2004 Early Career Scholar.