Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy, DCP3 author for the AIDS, STIs, TB and Malaria volume gave a lecture entitled “Economic interventions to increase the effectiveness of biomedical HIV prevention: an application to the demand for medical male circumcision in Kenya” at University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Thirumurthy is a co-author for the DCP3 chapter on management of HIV/AIDS and co-morbidities in children and adults: cost-effectiveness considerations.
Monday, September 8, 2014
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Research and Training Building, Harborview Medical Center
300 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104
Reception to follow
Harsha Thirumurthy is Assistant Professor of health economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center and an Affiliate of the Bureau for Research on the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of economics and public health, and over the past 10 years he has conducted research in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and India. His research is focused on the design of interventions that are informed by insights from psychology and economics and are applied to various health behaviors including uptake of HIV prevention services and adherence to treatment. He has also conducted research on the broader socio-economic impacts of scaling-up health interventions such as HIV treatment in low-income countries.
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