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Our current work is based in three countries (India, Rwanda, and Uganda) with a strong emphasis on improving health care delivery for cardiovascular disease prevention. As behavioral scientists, we focus on designing systems that motivate clinicians to deliver high-quality care consistently and patients to engage with and value preventive care.
Behavioral Science Strategies to Increase Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment (The BETTER HEART Study)
Summary: BETTER HEART is a 5-year project in collaboration with J-PAL South Asia and the Commissionerate of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh. The project aims to improve linkage to care among community members screened for hypertension by using behavioral science strategies.
M-PIs: Nikkil Sudharsanan (TUM), Harsha Thirumurthy (UPenn), Nikhil Tandon (AIIMS); Co-Is: Mohammed K. Ali (Emory), Alison Buttenheim (UPenn), Leslie Johnson (Emory)
Butaro Human Development and Demographic Surveillance Site (HD2SS): A hub for field research and training in Rwanda
Summary: We are establishing a Human Development and Demographic Surveillance Site (HD2SS) - an extension of the more traditional Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) - in Butaro, Rwanda. The HD2SS will go beyond traditional HDSSs to capture routine and reliable information on a broad and holistic set of development indicators, including: health and health service use; gender, empowerment, decision making; well-being; social networks; and family dynamics. Rather than a pure focus on measurement, the HD2SS will serve as a platform to design and test interventions to improve human development and inform health and social policy and resource planning in Rwanda.
Investigators: The HD2SS is a collaboration between teams at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MoH) and Biomedical Research Centre (RBC), Partners in Health Rwanda (PIH Rwanda), New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), and the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
IMPEDE-CVD: Human centered design to adapt and inform an integrated chronic disease management program in Uganda using mobile payment services
Summary: We designed, implemented, and evaluated a mobile-wallet facilitated voluntary contribution system to enable bulk purchase of essential medications. The aim was to use co-financing to address the challenge of frequent stock-outs. We are currently preparing the main study manuscripts but the protocol paper and GLOHRA summary are available here:
Investigators: IMPEDE-CVD is a collaboration between Heidelberg University, Charité, TUM, ACCESS Uganda, Makerere University, and mTomady
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