The economic burden of diseases and loss of productivity to low- and middle-income countries

Shweta Dabholkar is a PhD student in the Health Economics Department at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the economic burden of diseases and loss of productivity to low- and middle-income countries. Previously, Shweta has worked as a researcher at the University of Edinburgh where she studied the impact of pesticide bans and organic farming government policies on suicide cases and pesticide use in farming communities in South Asia. She has also worked as a Research Assistant at JPAL South Asia based out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a large scale non-communicable diseases randomized control trial [RCT] that assessed the impact of messaging services, tone of messaging and financial incentives on the adherence to diabetes treatment amongst the elderly population living in the slums of Mumbai. Shweta has completed her M.Sc in Anthropology and Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016.

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