Biography
Alison M. Buttenheim wants to understand how people make decisions about their health and focuses her research on the use of behavioral economics to increase the uptake of evidence-based care. Her work ranges from how households in Peru decide whether to apply insecticide to eliminate a disease-carrying insect vector to why parents in the United States request exemptions from child immunization laws. Her NIH-funded studies include a study to reduce the transmission of Chagas disease in Arequipa, Peru and a study on California’s laws on nonmedical exemptions for school-mandated immunizations.