Selected Publications

Apoorva Mandavilli: A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash. The New York Times Aug 2025 Notes: Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found (Harsha Thirumurthy quoted) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/health/cash-transfer-kenya-poverty.html.

Chakrabarti A, Ellermeier N, Tripathi A, Thirumurthy H, Nugent R: Diet-focused behavioral interventions to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of existing evidence. Obesity Reviews 26(7): e13918, Jul 2025.

Njuguna C, Mistri P, Long L, Chetty-Makkan C, Maughan-Brown B, Buttenheim A, Schmucker L, Pascoe S, Thirumurthy H, O'Connor C, Mutasa B, Rees K: Behaviourally-Informed Two-Way Text Messaging to Improve Return to HIV Care in South Africa: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior Jul 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.

Richterman A, Maughan-Brown B, Thirumurthy H: The health dividend of cash transfer programmes. Lancet Public Health 10(7): e538-e539, Jul 2025.

Sheira LA, Kwena ZA, Ayieko B, Charlebois ED, Agot K, Gutin SA, Lewis-Kulzer J, Olugo P, Gandhi M, Bukusi EA, Thirumurthy H, Adede D, Moody J, Camlin CS: The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen. AIDS 39(7): 912-917, June 2025.

Theilmann M, Mani SS, Geldsetzer P, Patel SA, Ali MK, Thirumurthy H, Narayan KMV, Mohan V, Tandon N, Prabhakaran D, Sudharsanan N: Does home-based screening improve hypertension diagnosis, treatment and control? A regression discontinuity analysis in urban India. BMJ Global Health 10(6): e017167, Jun 2025.

Agot K, Ayieko BO, Sheira LA, Camlin CS, Kulzer J, Thirumurthy H, Olugo P, Charlebois ED, Kwena Z: High mortality among fishermen along the beaches of lake Victoria: secondary analysis of evidence from a randomized control trial to promote HIV testing and services uptake in Siaya County, Kenya. BMC Public Health 25(1): 1630, May 2025.

Camlin CS, Sheira LA, Kwena ZA, Charlebois ED, Agot K, Moody J, Ayieko B, Gutin SA, Ochung A, Olugo P, Lewis-Kulzer J, Nishimura H, Gandhi M, Bukusi EA, Thirumurthy H.: The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Global Health 13(4): e669-e678, Apr 2025.

Adede DO, Sheira LA, Gutin SA, Ochung A, Ayieko B, Olugo P, Lewis-Kulzer J, Charlebois ED, Camlin CS, Thirumurthy H, Agot K, Kwena Z, Gandhi M : Comparing PrEP adherence via objective and self-reported measures among fishermen working on Lake Victoria, Kenya. AIDS Care 37(5): 749-757, Apr 2025.

Napierala S, Bair EF, Omollo OD, Egbe TI, Wesonga JO, Rajaratnam A, Celum C, Thirumurthy H, Agot K: High prevalence of STIs among men engaged in transactional sex and alcohol use in western Kenya: important implications for STI prevention interventions. Sexually Transmitted Infections 101(3): 183-186, Apr 2025.