Professional 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.
