Drew Cameron, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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Research Summary
Drew Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) at the Yale School of Public Health. He is a health economist whose research focuses on the evaluation of health and development programs in resource-poor and low- and middle-income country settings. In these settings, he studies the role of targeted subsidies to increase the future demand for goods associated with health benefits, the use of 'nudges' to improve health seeking behavior, and costing and cost-effectiveness analytic methods that address demand- and supply-side constraints. His work has typically focused on child growth and early childhood development, water sanitation and hygiene, HIV/AIDS, health in carceral settings, rural development and the quality of primary care. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Puget Sound, an MA in International Development from the American University School of International Service and a PhD in Health Policy from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.
Research Interests
Poverty; Public Health; Economic Development; Social Determinants of Health; Population Health
Public Health Interests
Global Health; HIV/AIDS; Child/Adolescent Health; Implementation Science; Economics of Health Behaviors
Selected Publications
- Product preferences and willingness to pay for potable water delivery: Experimental evidence from rural Bihar, IndiaCameron D, Ray I, Parida M, Dow W. Product preferences and willingness to pay for potable water delivery: Experimental evidence from rural Bihar, India. PLOS ONE 2023, 18: e0283892. PMID: 37023105, PMCID: PMC10079134, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283892.
- Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Malhotra A, Thompson RR, Kagoya F, Masiye F, Mbewe P, Mosepele M, Phiri J, Sambo J, Barker A, Cameron DB, Davila-Roman VG, Effah W, Hutchinson B, Laxy M, Newsome B, Watkins D, Sohn H, Dowdy DW. Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review. Implement Sci 2022, 17: 76. PMID: 36384807, DOI: 10.1186/s13012-022-01248-x.
- Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison.Kwan A, Sklar R, Cameron DB, Schell RC, Bertozzi SM, McCoy SI, Williams B, Sears DA. Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison. International Journal Of Prisoner Health 2022 PMID: 35678718, PMCID: PMC10231421, DOI: 10.1108/ijph-12-2021-0116.
- COVID-19 outbreak in a state prison: a case study on the implementation of key public health recommendations for containment and preventionDuarte C, Cameron DB, Kwan AT, Bertozzi SM, Williams BA, McCoy SI. COVID-19 outbreak in a state prison: a case study on the implementation of key public health recommendations for containment and prevention. BMC Public Health 2022, 22: 977. PMID: 35568894, PMCID: PMC9107313, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12997-1.
- Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan AfricaBautista-Arredondo S, Pineda-Antunez C, Cerecero-Garcia D, Cameron DB, Alexander L, Chiwevu C, Forsythe S, Tchuenche M, Dow WH, Kahn J, Gomez GB, Vassall A, Bollinger LA, Levin C. Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0249076. PMID: 33886576, PMCID: PMC8062035, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249076.
- Cost of tuberculosis treatment in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-regressionSiapka M, Vassall A, Cunnama L, Pineda C, Cerecero D, Sweeney S, Bautista-Arredondo S, Bollinger L, Cameron D, Levin C, Gomez GB. Cost of tuberculosis treatment in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-regression. The International Journal Of Tuberculosis And Lung Disease 2020, 24: 802-810. PMID: 32912385, DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0694.
- Variation in primary health care services after implementation of quality improvement policy in Brazil.Vieira-Meyer APGF, Machado MFAS, Gubert FA, Morais APP, Paula Sampaio Y, Saintrain MVL, Cameron D, Reynolds S, Ram TK, Fernald L. Variation in primary health care services after implementation of quality improvement policy in Brazil. Family Practice 2020, 37: 69-80. PMID: 31433473, DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmz040.
- Meta-analysis of average costs of HIV testing and counselling and voluntary medical male circumcision across thirteen countriesPineda-Antunez C, Martinez-Silva G, Cerecero-Garcia D, Alexander L, Cameron DB, Chiwevu C, Dandona L, Obure CD, Forsythe S, Nguyen VT, Settumba S, Tchuenche M, Van Minh H, Kahn JG, Gomez G, Sweeney S, Vassall A, Bollinger L, Levin C, Bautista-Arredondo S. Meta-analysis of average costs of HIV testing and counselling and voluntary medical male circumcision across thirteen countries. African Journal Of AIDS Research 2019, 18: 341-349. PMID: 31779565, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1679850.
- The state of costing research for HIV interventions in sub-Saharan AfricaCameron DB, Diab M, Carroll LN, Bollinger LA, Plosky W, Levin C, Herzel B, Marseille E, Alexander L, Bautista-Arredondo S, Pineda-Antunez C, Cerecero-García D, Gomez GB, Dow WH, Kahn JG. The state of costing research for HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. African Journal Of AIDS Research 2019, 18: 277-288. PMID: 31779568, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1679200.
- Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learnedPlosky W, Bollinger LA, Alexander L, Cameron DB, Carroll LN, Cunnama L, Gomez GB, Levin C, Marseille E, Diab M, Siapka M, Sinanovic E, Vassall A, Kahn JG. Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learned. African Journal Of AIDS Research 2019, 18: 263-276. PMID: 31779571, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1680398.
- A meta-analysis approach for estimating average unit costs for ART using pooled facility-level primary data from African countriesCerecero-García D, Pineda-Antunez C, Alexander L, Cameron D, Martinez-Silva G, Obure CD, Marseille E, Vu L, Kahn JG, Vassall A, Gomez G, Bollinger L, Levin C, Bautista-Arredondo S. A meta-analysis approach for estimating average unit costs for ART using pooled facility-level primary data from African countries. African Journal Of AIDS Research 2019, 18: 297-305. PMID: 31779577, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1688362.
- Heterogeneous Effects of Urban Land Titling: A Replication of ‘Property Rights for the Poor’Whitney E, Cameron D, Winters P. Heterogeneous Effects of Urban Land Titling: A Replication of ‘Property Rights for the Poor’. The Journal Of Development Studies 2018, 55: 1030-1033. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1506576.
- The growth of impact evaluation for international development: how much have we learned?Cameron D, Mishra A, Brown A. The growth of impact evaluation for international development: how much have we learned? Journal Of Development Effectiveness 2015, 8: 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2015.1034156.
- A Review of the Evidence of Harm from Self-TestsBrown AN, Djimeu EW, Cameron DB. A Review of the Evidence of Harm from Self-Tests. AIDS And Behavior 2014, 18: 445-449. PMID: 24989129, PMCID: PMC4094790, DOI: 10.1007/s10461-014-0831-y.
- Quality evidence for policymaking: I’ll believe it when I see the replicationBrown A, Cameron D, Wood B. Quality evidence for policymaking: I’ll believe it when I see the replication. Journal Of Development Effectiveness 2014, 6: 215-235. DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2014.944555.