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Pitchaya Indravudh

Research Fellow
Health Economics

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

My main area of work is in evaluation and economics research in HIV.

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Global Health and Development

Teaching

I tutor and supervise MSc Public Health students.

Research

Broadly, I am interested in the design of behavioural and social interventions addressing HIV and STI-related risk and service use and the evaluation of their economic and health effects. My recent research has focused on approaches to increase uptake of HIV services using experimental, observational, and economic evaluation methods.

I recently worked on the HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) project, where I was based in Malawi and led randomised trials and economic studies of HIV self-testing interventions. My current projects include behavioural studies, including discrete choice experiments, of long-acting HIV prevention technologies in Kenya and Uganda (UPTAKE), and economic evaluation of a community HIV and STI programme in Zimbabwe (CHIEDZA).

Research Area
Complex interventions
Economic evaluation
Social and structural determinants of health
Impact evaluation
Discipline
Health economics
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infection
Country
Kenya
Malawi
Uganda
Zimbabwe

Selected Publications

Understanding mechanisms of impact from community-led delivery of HIV self-testing: Mediation analysis of a cluster-randomised trial in Malawi.
Indravudh PP; Terris-Prestholt F; Neuman M; Kumwenda MK; Chilongosi R; Johnson CC; Hatzold K; Corbett EL; Fielding K
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
Effect of door-to-door distribution of HIV self-testing kits on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a cluster randomised trial in Malawi.
Indravudh PP; Fielding K; Chilongosi R; Nzawa R; Neuman M; Kumwenda MK; Nyirenda R; Johnson CC; Taegtmeyer M; Desmond N
2021
BMJ global health
Effect of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation in Malawi: A cluster-randomised trial.
Indravudh PP; Fielding K; Kumwenda MK; Nzawa R; Chilongosi R; Desmond N; Nyirenda R; Neuman M; Johnson CC; Baggaley R
2021
PLoS medicine
Pragmatic economic evaluation of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing in Malawi.
Indravudh PP; Fielding K; Sande LA; Maheswaran H; Mphande S; Kumwenda MK; Chilongosi R; Nyirenda R; Johnson CC; Hatzold K
2021
BMJ global health
Who is Reached by HIV Self-Testing? Individual Factors Associated With Self-Testing Within a Community-Based Program in Rural Malawi.
Indravudh PP; Hensen B; Nzawa R; Chilongosi R; Nyirenda R; Johnson CC; Hatzold K; Fielding K; Corbett EL; Neuman M
2020
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Community-led delivery of HIV self-testing to improve HIV testing, ART initiation and broader social outcomes in rural Malawi: study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial.
Indravudh PP; Fielding K; Kumwenda MK; Nzawa R; Chilongosi R; Desmond N; Nyirenda R; Johnson CC; Baggaley RC; Hatzold K
2019
BMC infectious diseases
Preferences for linkage to HIV care services following a reactive self-test: discrete choice experiments in Malawi and Zambia.
d'Elbée M; Indravudh PP; Mwenge L; Kumwenda MM; Simwinga M; Choko AT; Hensen B; Neuman M; Ong JJ; Sibanda EL
2018
AIDS (London, England)
Scaling up HIV self-testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of technology, policy and evidence.
Indravudh PP; Choko AT; Corbett EL
2017
Current opinion in infectious diseases
'I will choose when to test, where I want to test': investigating young people's preferences for HIV self-testing in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Indravudh PP; Sibanda EL; d'Elbée M; Kumwenda MK; Ringwald B; Maringwa G; Simwinga M; Nyirenda LJ; Johnson CC; Hatzold K
2017
AIDS (London, England)
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