CAPS I&I Core presents: Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD -- Behavioral Economics in HIV Research

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Presented by the CAPS Intervention and Implementation Science (I&I) Core
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Harsha Thirumurthy is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics an Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Associate Director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, where he leads global initiatives and a Research Associate at Penn's Population Studies Center. Professor Thirumurthy's interest lie at the intersecton of economics and public health. His research seeks to design and rigorously evaluate interventions that can achieve changes in health behaviors in low-income settings, typically using insights from psychology and economics as well as novel technologies. His work has focused on medication adherence, HIV prevention and treatment, and behaviors related to maternal and child health. He has led several randomized trials of incentive-based approches to health and promotion as well as mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Dr. Thirumurthy's research has also studied the impacts of large-scale health initiatives. He has published peer-reviewed articles in a number of leading journals in economics, public health and medicine including JAMA, The Lancet HIV, PLOS Medicine, the Journal of Public Economics and the American Economic Journal-Applied Economics. Currently he is leading NIH-funded projects on the use of HIV self tests to improve decision-making and on the use of novel incentive-based interventions to promote HIV testing and engagement in care in Uganda. He is also leading projects on mental health outcomes in India. Dr. Thirumurthy completed a Ph.D. in economics at Yale University. He is an affiliate of the Bureau for Research on the Economic Analysis of Development and is currently a member of the Population Sciences review panel at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.