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Dr Pitchaya Peach Indravudh

Assistant Professor in Health Economics

United Kingdom

I am a health economist with a focus on health behaviours and preferences and their integration into economic evaluations.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I teach, tutor, and supervise MSc Public Health students. I also contribute to the intensive and distance learning modules Introduction to Health Economics and Economic Analysis for Health Policy.

I am a Fellow of the HEA.

Research

I conduct research on the evaluation of public health interventions, primarily in sexual and reproductive health.

These include:

  • Systematic reviews and economic modelling of self-care with WHO
  • Discrete choice experiments of TB medical decision-making behaviours in Peru, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam (FEND)
  • Behavioural studies, including discrete choice experiments, of long-acting HIV prevention technologies in Kenya and Uganda (UPTAKE)
  • Development of costing and budgeting guidelines for community-led HIV responses with UNAIDS
  • Economic evaluation of a community HIV and STI programme in Zimbabwe (CHIEDZA)
  • Randomised trials and economic evaluations of community HIV self-testing (STAR)

My PhD evaluated whether uptake of HIV testing and treatment could be increased in Malawi from community-led delivery of HIV self-testing, through which mechanisms, and whether such an approach is efficient and cost-effective.

Research Area
Health economics
Evaluation
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infections
Tuberculosis

Selected Publications

Uncertainty in tuberculosis clinical decision-making: An umbrella review with systematic methods and thematic analysis.
Basile, FW; SWEENEY, S; SINGH, MP; Bijker, EM; Cohen, T; Menzies, NA; VASSALL, A; INDRAVUDH, P;
2024
PLOS global public health
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; Hatzold, K; CORBETT, EL;
2021
BMJ global health
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; CORBETT, EL; TERRIS-PRESTHOLT, F;
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; Hatzold, K; TERRIS-PRESTHOLT, F; CORBETT, EL;
2021
PLoS medicine
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; TERRIS-PRESTHOLT, F; CORBETT, EL;
2019
BMC infectious diseases
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; TERRIS-PRESTHOLT, F; Taegtmeyer, M;
2017
AIDS (London, England)
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