We are thrilled to share our June 2023 newsletter where we feature updates on Indlela's expansion, BIT projects and team achievements. Please join us at our satellite session and skills-building workshop taking place at SA AIDS 2023. Read more here rb.gy/ycem3

Excellent blog post on the scale-up of HIV treatment in Africa. Fortunately there were a series of economics papers that showed the 'Lazarus effect' of treatment on economic outcomes as well -- it helped offset some of the arguments that are (rightly) critiqued here.

A nice write-up about our new study on the effects of cash transfers programs on all-cause mortality rates. Aaron Richterman, MD

Over 100 governments in low- and middle-income countries have introduced anti-poverty cash transfer programs over the last 3 decades

In new research, we examined the effects of these initiatives on the ultimate health outcome — mortality

Published today in nature /1

This BBC World Service clip discusses the important work of Indlela Behavioural Insights – the HIV nudge unit in South Africa that our CHIBE leadership members Alison Buttenheim and Harsha Thirumurthy launched in partnership with HE2RO_RSA. Listen in around the 5:49 mark.
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Attending the AIDS 2022 conference? Here is a Behavioural Economics (BE) Roadmap to help you navigate through the sessions and posters relevant to research on BE. Read more here: bit.ly/3v8wJsq.

The 'missing Americans': early death in the United States

In a new pre-print, we quantify the number of deaths that would have been averted each year, 1933-2021, if the U.S. had mortality rates equal to the average of 18 peer nations.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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In a new study, we examine trends in transactional sex and economic outcomes during the first year of the pandemic among women at risk for HIV exposure in rural Kenya

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Harsha Thirumurthy

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Starting now - the PDRI Conference on Climate Change and the Environment!

In November 2021, South Africa's Dept of Health launched the Vooma Voucher program (a grocery voucher for older adults receiving their 1st #CovidVaccine ) to increase vax coverage in this critically undervaxxed group.

Did it work? A🧵.

(tl;dr: Yes, ~10%, see pre-print🔗 below)

I'm delighted to share that I will join Northeastern U. this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Health Sciences and Economics. Thanks to my wonderful mentors Edward Miguel Harsha Thirumurthy Margaret E. Kruk for their support. Excited for this next chapter!!

What is the real impact of a #war on #humancapital ? In our paper World Development (with Richard Akresh & Harsha Thirumurthy) we show that results using data on household distance to the ETH-ERI conflict are 2-3 times larger compared to the ones using traditional regional level data

Opportunity to improve #Diversity and #inclusion in #economics by joining as #AMIE (AMIE) mentor. We have 30 mentors so far! The deadline is March 30!! Apply soon #EconTwitter

We're excited to release our first Newsletter for 2022! In this edition we share updates on our current BIT projects and news on a recent award. We also profile the work our team has contributed to the field of HIV and COVID-19. Read more here: bit.ly/369FrNc

WE'RE HIRING! Looking for a Behavioral Economist who wants to join an interdisciplinary team pursuing impact in health research. Please RT to spread the word! bit.ly/BEJob22

What happens when health care orgs are incentivized to reach quality targets for employee flu vax coverage?

Harsha Thirumurthy & I 'look under the hood' of Liaqat et al's analysis of threshold effects in NHS England's flu vax scheme in BMJ Quality & Safety

qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

A new JEP symposium on 'the economies of Africa'

aeaweb.org/issues/668

🚨 CALL FOR FOR PAPERS 🚨

PDRI is inviting submissions for a Conference on Climate Change & the Environment on May 12th, 2022.

Learn more and submit your papers by March 15th at the link below!

pdri.upenn.edu/announcement/c…

Have you been doing research on the impacts of COVID on poverty, food insecurity or nutrition?

Harsha Thirumurthy and I have a joint call for papers for an SDG1 and 2 collection out in Advances in Global Health - papers due April 1.

online.ucpress.edu/agh/pages/elim…

Fantastic opportunity for URM students interested in #healthpolicy , #bioethics , #healthequity research: work on mentored, funded, cutting-edge projects in health service research & beyond via Penn LDI Apply/flag to students, deadline: Feb 1, 2022 ldi.upenn.edu/education/penn…