Omar Galarraga

Omar Galárraga, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in Providence, RI in the Department of Community Health (Health Services Research, Policy and Practice), as well as a Faculty Affiliate at Brown's Institute of International Health, and Population Studies and Training Center.

During 2006-2010 he was Assistant Professor and Researcher in Health Economics at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and at the Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Galárraga's current research focuses on three main areas of applied health economics and health services research: how conditional economic incentives may be utilized to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in concentrated epidemic settings; the treatment effects of health and social programs in Latin America and low-income populations in the United States; and the efficiency of HIV treatment and prevention programs worldwide.