Esha Dwibedi

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Community-Based Health Equity at University of Virginia working on the development, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based behavioral interventions targeting cancer control priorities for rural communities. My current research focuses on experimental design, economic modeling and statistical analysis of behavioral interventions to improve preventative healthcare practices. 

Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at University of Washington where I worked on modelling and economic evaluation of health interventions and cost-effectiveness analysis of health systems and healthcare interventions.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics at Virginia Tech, where I studied decision-making in various contexts including health, education, and strategic behavior. My research explored health behavior and attitudes of individuals through behavioral experiments. In addition, I studied the interactive effect of institutions at the societal level and individual level decision-making through experimental and survey data. 

I was a Data Science for the Public Good fellow in the summer of 2021. I have also previously been part of the India Fellow Social Leadership Program, through which I worked at the grassroots level in Delhi-NCR region on developing viable enterprises for low-income households and rejuvenating livelihoods of artisan-communes.