Dissertation Title: "Social Ties and Health: An Analysis of Patient-Doctor Trust and Network-Based Public Health Interventions Through Randomized Experiments and Simulations"
This dissertation investigates the structure and function of interpersonal ties...
Dissertation Title： "Quality of Life, Health-Related Stigma, and The Social Context: Longitudinal Analyses of PLWHA in Uganda and a Literature Review"
The dissertation examines the experience of living with stigmatized health conditions in the social...
Dissertation Title： "Examining Methods Used to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions"
This dissertation examines methods used to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions in order to help decision...
Dissertation Title: "Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Health Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation"
The objective of this dissertation is to examine to what extent individual-level or social network-level...
Dissertation Title: "Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention"
This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation...
Dissertation Title："Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecutiry, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda"
This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and...