Andrés Moya is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and is a Commissioner for the 2024-2025 Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement.
He works in the field of development economics and mainly focusses on understanding the consequences of conflict and forced displacement and how they thrust people into poverty through economic, psychological, and behavioral channels. He then builds upon this knowledge to design and evaluate interventions to mitigate some of these consequences and foster movements out of poverty.
The prime example of this work is Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial program for caregivers of young children in communities exposed to conflict and forced displacement. The program promotes maternal mental health as an outcome and as a pathway to protect children from the effects of early childhood adversities. Semillas de Apego has been implemented and evaluated in different phases to demonstrate its validity, impact, and potential for scale up. Between 2023 and 2025, the program is scaling up to reach 15,000 caregivers and 20,000 children in 15 municipalities in Colombia.
Andrés Moya is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and is a Commissioner for the 2024-2025 Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement. He works in the field of development economics and mainly focusses on understanding the consequences of conflict and forced displacement and how they thrust people into poverty through economic, psychological, and behavioral channels. He then builds upon this knowledge to design and evaluate interventions to mitigate some of these consequences and foster movements out of poverty. The prime example of this work is Semillas de Apego, a community-based…