Education

  • PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington
  • MSPH, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
  • BA, Biology, Tufts University

Biography

Dr. Monisha Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health. She received her Masters in infectious disease epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Washington. Her research interests include mathematical modeling and economic evaluation of HIV treatment and prevention interventions in Eastern and Southern Africa. She leads the economic evaluation of serval NIH and Gates funded trials to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of interventions to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and adherence in Kenya. Additional areas of research include modeling novel PrEP products and assisted partner notification services on the HIV epidemic as well as cervical cancer prevention in low and middle income countries.