Esha Dwibedi

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Public Health Sciences 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. I received the UVA Cancer Center Farrow Fellowship in 2025-26 to develop emotion-targeted public health messaging to improve colorectal cancer screening rates.

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.