Brown Bag Seminar: Economic inequality and violent mortality: Evidence from Ecuador
Omar Galárraga, PhD, is a health economist and tenured professor of health services, policy and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Global Public Health (CGPH) at Brown. Galárraga’s research applies principles from health and behavioral economics to improve public health outcomes, with a specific focus on: (a) HIV prevention and treatment: designing and evaluating economic-based interventions, such as conditional economic incentives to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and reduce risk behaviors; (b) Health systems: analyzing health systems reform and insurance expansion in low- and middle-income countries; and (c) Applied econometrics: utilizing rigorous experimental and non-experimental methods to evaluate health interventions. He conducts research globally, collaborating with partners in Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. He is the former director of the doctoral program in health services research at Brown and was an appointed member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) from 2021 to 2024. Currently, he is a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH) study section, and an associate editor for the journal Health Economics. Galárraga has authored over 150 publications in leading health economics and public health journals.
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Omar Galárraga
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