# Nyovani Madise Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Demographer; at the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Lilongwe, Malawi, per the 2023 paper - Lead author, with Arindam Nandi, Brad Wong and Saleema Razvi, of "Achieving Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Development Goals Effectively: A Cost-Benefit Analysis", *Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis* (2023), doi:10.1017/bca.2023.24. It finds a benefit-cost ratio of 87 for scaling up basic emergency obstetric and newborn care and family planning in 55 countries. - Previously a professor of demography at the University of Southampton ⚠️ (not re-checked). - Cited by Lomborg in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Maternal and Newborn Deaths (2026-09-14)|Maternal and Newborn Deaths]]; the paper is the basis of ch. 6 of [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Books/Best Things First|*Best Things First*]].