Abdu Kedir Seid (AKS) is a research associate at the Policy Studies Institute (Ethiopia) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abdu is trained as an economist and has focused on the interplay between health and socioeconomic outcomes. His current research involves a project that aims to examine long-term maternal health and the economics of risky health behaviours.