Omar Galárraga, PhD

Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health
Faculty, MS in Implementation Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Omar Galárraga, a health economist and health services researcher, is the Director of the International Health Institute (IHI) at the Brown University School of Public Health, where he is a tenured Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice. At Brown, he also serves in the steering committee for the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC), on the advisory committee for the Center for Latin American Studies (CLACS), and the advisory board for the Data Science Institute (DSI).

His research uses insights from health and behavioral economics with a special focus on HIV treatment and prevention, health systems, and applied health econometric analysis. He evaluates economic-based interventions using experimental and rigorous non-experimental methods; his contributions have appeared in over 130 publications in health economics, public health and health services research.

Dr. Galárraga serves as Associate Editor for Health Economics; as standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH) study section; and as an appointed member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC).  He conducts research in Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. in collaboration with community and academic partners.