Till Baernighausen

ScD International Health (Economics), 2008, Harvard School of Public Health

MSc Financial Economics, 2006, SOAS, University of London

Medical Specialist in Family Medicine, 2002

MSc Health Systems Management, 2001, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

MD/PhD History of Medicine, 1998, University of Heidelberg

Kassanjee R, McWalter T, Bärnighausen T, Welte A. A new general biomarker-based incidence estimator. Epidemiology (forthcoming).

Robyn J, Sauerborn R, Bärnighausen T. Provider payment in community-based health insurance schemes in developing countries: a systematic review. Health Policy and Planning 2012 [forthcoming].

Mills E, Bärnighausen T, Negin J. AIDS and aging: preparing for the challenges ahead. New England Journal of Medicine 2012 [forthcoming].

Giordano K, Bärnighausen T, McGrath N, Snow R, Harlow S, Newell ML. Factors associated with repeated refusal to participate in a longitudinal population-based HIV surveillance in rural South Africa: an observational study, regression analysis. Journal of HIV/AIDS Surveillance & Epidemiology 2012 [forthcoming].

Rockers P, Feigl A, Røttingen JA, Fretheim A, de Ferranti D, Lavis J, Melberg H, Bärnighausen T (2011). Study-design selection criteria in systematic reviews of effectiveness of health systems interventions and reforms: a meta-review. Health Policy [forthcoming].

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Dabis F, Newell ML (2011). Interventions to improve the performance of HIV health systems for treatment-as-prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: the experimental evidence. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS [forthcoming].

Chimbindi N, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2011). Almost universal coverage: HIV testing among TB patients in a rural public program. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease [forthcoming].

Floyd S, Marston M, Baisley K, Wringe A, Herbst K, Chihana M, Kasamba I, Bärnighausen T, Urassa M, Glynn J, Todd J, Zaba B (2011). The effect of antiretroviral therapy provision on all-cause and cause-specific mortality at the population level - a comparative analysis of data from 4 demographic surveillance sites in Southern and East Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health [forthcoming].

Eyal N, Bärnighausen T (2011). Precommitting to serve the underserved. American Journal of Bioethics 2011 [forthcoming].

Bärnighausen T, Chaiyachati K, Chimbindi N, Peoples A, Haberer J, Newell ML (2011). Interventions to increase antiretroviral adherence  in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of evaluation studies. Lancet Infectious Diseases [Epub ahead of print, 2011 October 25].

Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Humair S (2011). Health systems and HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: matching intervention and program evaluation strategies. Sexually Transmitted Infections [forthcoming].

Anand S, Bärnighausen T (2011). Health workers at the core of the health system: framework and research issues. Health Policy [forthcoming].

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Malaza A, Herbst K, Newell ML. (2011). HIV status and participation in HIV surveillance in the era of antiretroviral treatment: a study of linked population-based and clinical data in rural South Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health [forthcoming].

Zaba B, Kasamba I, Floyd S, Isingo R, Herbst K, Bärnighausen T, Gregson S, Todd J, Marston M, Wringe A. (2011). Using age-specific mortality of HIV infected persons to predict anti-retroviral Treatment need: a comparative analysis of data from five African population-based cohort studies. Tropical Medicine & International Health [forthcoming].

Goldberg AB, Fox A, Gore R, Bärnighausen T (2011) Indicators of political commitment to respond to HIV. Sexually Transmitted Infections [forthcoming].

Rochat T, Tomlinson M, Newell ML, Bärnighausen T, Stein A (2011). The prevalence and clinical presentation of antenatal depression in rural South Africa. Journal of Affective Disorders [in press].

Fox A, Goldberg A, Gore R, Bärnighausen T (2011). Conceptual and methodological challenges to measuring political commitment to respond to HIV. Journal of the International AIDS Society [in press].

Bärnighausen T, Kyle M, Salomon J, Waning B (2011). Assessing the population health impact of market interventions to improve access to antiretroviral treatment. Health Policy and Planning [in press].

Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Hund L, Garnett G, McGrath N, Newell ML (2011). The impact of concurrent sexual partnerships on the rate of new HIV infections in a high prevalence, rural South African population. The Lancet, 378(9787): 247-255.

Hontelez J, Nagelkerke N, Bärnighausen T, Bakker R, Tanser F, Newell ML, Lurie M, Baltussen R, de Vlas S (2011). The potential impact of RV144-like vaccines in rural South Africa: a study using the STDSIM microsimulation model. Vaccine [in press].

Hontelez J, de Vlas S, Tanser F, Bakker R, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML, Baltussen R, Lurie M (2011). The impact of the new WHO antiretroviral treatment guidelines on HIV epidemic dynamics and cost in South Africa. PLoS ONE, 6(7): e21919.

Hontelez J, Lurie M, Newell ML, Bakker R, Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Baltussen R, de Vlas S (2011). Ageing with HIV in South Africa. AIDS, 25(13): 1665-1667.

Bor J, Bärnighausen T, Newell C, Tanser F, Newell ML (2011). Social exposure to an antiretroviral treatment program in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Tropical Medicine & International Health [in press].

Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Humair S (2011). Going horizontal -- shifts in funding of global health interventions. New England Journal of Medicine, 364(23): 2181-2183.

Ndirangu J, Bland R, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2011). Validating child vaccination status in a demographic surveillance system using data from a clinical cohort study: evidence from rural South Africa. BMC Public Health, 11(1):372.

Bärnighausen T, Bor J, Wandira-Kazibwe S, Canning D (2011). Interviewer identity as exclusion restriction in epidemiology. Epidemiology, 22(3): 446.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Canning D, Friedman A, Levine O, O’Brien J, Privor-Dumm J, Walker D (2011). Rethinking the benefits and costs of childhood vaccination: the example of the Haemophilus influenza type b vaccine. Vaccine, 29(13): 2371-2380.

Ott M, Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Lurie M, Newell ML (2011). Age-gaps in sexual partnerships in rural KwaZulu-Natal: seeing beyond ‘sugar daddies’. AIDS, 25(6): 861-863.

Chaiyachati K, Hirschhorn L, Tanser F, Newell ML, Bärnighausen T (2011). Validating five questions of antiretroviral non-adherence in a public-sector treatment program in rural South Africa. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 25(3): 163-170.

Bärnighausen T, Bor J, Wandira-Kazibwe S, Canning D (2011). Correcting HIV prevalence estimates for survey non-participation using Heckman-type selection models. Epidemiology, 22(1): 27-35.

Cooke G, Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2010). Population uptake of antiretroviral treatment through primary care in rural South Africa. BMC Public Health, 10(1): 585.

Bärnighausen T (2010). The role of the health system in HIV treatment-as-prevention. AIDS, 13(24: 2741-2742 .

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, Humair S (2010). Universal antiretroviral treatment: the challenge of human resources. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88: 951-952.

Waning B, Diedrichsen E, Jambert E, Bärnighausen T, Li Y, Pouw M, Moon S (2010). The global pediatric antiretroviral market: analyses of product availability and utilization reveal challenges for development of pediatric formulations and HIV/AIDS treatment in children. BMC Pediatrics, 10: 74.

Wallrauch C, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2010). HIV infection of concern also in people 50 years and older in rural South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 100(12): 812-814.

Nyirenda M, Zaba B, Bärnighausen T, Hosegood V, Newell, ML (2010). Adjusting HIV prevalence for survey non-response using mortality rates: an application of the method using surveillance data from rural South Africa. PLoS ONE, 5(8): e12370.

Bärnighausen T, McWalter T, Rosner Z, Newell ML, Welte A (2010). Use of the BED capture enzyme immunoassay to estimate HIV incidence: systematic review and sensitivity analysis. Epidemiology, 21(5): 685-697.

Mutevedzi P, Lessells R, Heller T, Bärnighausen T, Cooke G, Newell ML (2010). Scale-up of a decentralised HIV treatment programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: does rapid expansion affect patient outcomes? Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88: 593-600.

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Hallet T, Newell ML (2010). Prioritizing communities for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 26(4): 401-405.

Camlin C, Hosegood V, Newell ML, McGrath N, Bärnighausen T, Snow R (2010). Gender, migration and HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 5(7):e11539.

Bärnighausen T (2010). "Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them." In: Ni J, Guo N, Selden M, Kleinman A (eds.), Japan's wartime medical atrocities: comparative inquiries in science, history and ethics. Routledge, New York.

Waning B, Kyle M, Diedrichsen E, Soucy L, Hochstadt J, Bärnighausen T, Moon S (2010). Intervening in global markets to improve access to HIV/AIDS treatment: an analysis of international policies and the dynamics of global antiretroviral medicines markets. Globalization and Health, 25(6): 9.

Wallrauch C, Heller T, Lessells R, Kekane E, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2009). High uptake of HIV testing for TB patients in an integrated primary health care HIV/TB programme rural KwaZulu-Natal. South African Medical Journal, 100(3): 146-147.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, Humair S (2009). A mathematical model for estimating the number of health workers required for universal antiretroviral treatment. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper #15517. http://www.nber.org/papers/w15517

Heller T, Lessells R, Wallrauch C, Bärnighausen T, Cooke G, Mhlongo L, Master I, Newell ML (2010). Community-based treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in rural KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 14(4): 420-426.

Ndirangu J, Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Tint K, Newell ML (2009). Levels of childhood vaccination coverage and the impact of maternal HIV status on child vaccination status in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 14(11): 1383-1393.

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F (2009). Rethinking the role of the local community in HIV epidemic spread in sub-Saharan Africa: a proximate-determinants approach. HIV Therapy, 3(5): 1-11.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2009). "Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS health workers: educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 68: 544-551.

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Newell ML (2009). Lack of a decline in HIV incidence in a rural community with high HIV prevalence in South Africa, 2003-2007. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 25(4): 405-409.  

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2009). Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review, BMC Health Services Research, 29(9): 86. 

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2009). Designing financial-incentive programs for return of service in underserved areas: seven management functions. Human Resources for Health, 7(1): 52.  

Welte A, McWalter T, Bärnighausen T (2009). Reply to 'Should biomarker estimates of HIV incidence be adjusted?'. AIDS, 23(15): 2062-2063.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2009). Changing perspectives on the global health workforce. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper #15168. http://www.nber.org/papers/w15168

Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Cooke G, Newell ML (2009). Localised spatial clustering of HIV infections in a widely-disseminated rural South African epidemic. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(4): 1008-1016.  

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2009). "The global health workforce." In: Smith, P., Glied, S. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Health Economics. Oxford University Press, Oxford [in press].  

Franey C, Knott D, Bärnighausen T, Dedicoat M, Adam A, Lessells R, Newell ML, Cooke G (2009). Renal impairment in a rural African antiretroviral programme. BMC Infectious Diseases, 9: 143.

Welte A, McWalter T, Bärnighausen T (2009). A simplified formula for inferring HIV incidence from cross-sectional surveys using a test for recent infection. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses,25(1): 125-126.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, Canning D, Friedman A, Levine O, O'Brien J, Privor-Dumm L, Walker D (2009). The economic case for expanding vaccination coverage of children. Copenhagen Consensus Center, Fredriksberg.

Herbst K, Cooke G, Bärnighausen T, Kany Kany A, Tanser F, Newell ML (2009). Adult mortality and antiretroviral treatment roll-out in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 87:1-9.

Bärnighausen T, Wallrauch C, Lessles R, Tanser F (2010). "The HIV epidemic and HIV treatment in KwaZulu-Natal". In: Nzimande N (ed.), State of the population of KwaZulu-Natal: demographic profile and development indicators. Office of the Premier, Province of KwaZulu-Natal, and United Nations Food Programme, Durban. 

Hallet T, Ghys P, Bärnighausen T, Yan P, Garnett G (2009). Errors in ‘BED'-derived estimates of HIV incidence will vary by place, time and age, PLoS ONE, 4(5): e5720.

Bärnighausen T, Wallrauch C, Welte A, McWalter T, Mbizana N, Viljoen J, Graham N, Tanser F, Puren A, Newell ML (2008). Validating cBED assay-based HIV incidence estimates in rural South Africa. PLoS ONE, 3(11): e3640.  

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, O'Brien J (2008). Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 98(11): 842-846.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, Humair S (2008). Estimating health worker need to provide antiretroviral treatment in the developing world. Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) Working Paper No. 3808.

Wallrauch C, Bärnighausen T, Heller T, Houlihan C, Newell ML (2008). The white and the three-letter plague: integration of TB and HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV Therapy, 2(5): 437-451.

Bärnighausen T (2008). Reasons for loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programs in South Africa. HIV Therapy, 2(2): 141-145.

Bärnighausen T, Hosegood V, Timaeus I, Newell ML (2007). The socioeconomic determinants of HIV incidence: evidence from a longitudinal, population-based study in rural South Africa, AIDS, 21: S29-S38.

Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Gqwede Z, Mbizana C, Herbst K, Newell ML (2007). High HIV incidence in a community with high HIV prevalence in rural South Africa: findings from a prospective population-based study, AIDS, 22(1): 139-144.

Bärnighausen T, Welz T, Hosegood V, Bätzing-Feigenbaum J, Tanser F, Herbst K, Hill C, Newell ML (2007). Hiding in the shadows of the HIV epidemic: hypertension and obesity in a population with high HIV prevalence in rural South Africa, Journal of Human Hypertension, 22(3): 236-239.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D, Humair S (2007). Human resources for treating HIV/AIDS: needs, capacities, and gaps. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 21(11): 799-812.

Bärnighausen T (2007). Access to antiretroviral treatment in the developing world: a framework, review and health systems research agenda, Therapy, 4(6): 753-766.

Bärnighausen T, Xolo V, Cooke G (2007). Evaluating the performance of antiretroviral treatment programs: mortality and loss to follow-up. PLoS Medicine, 28 December 2007.

Bärnighausen T, Bloom D (2007). "Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS health workers: educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper No. 13396. http://www.nber.org/papers/w13396

Bossert T, Bärnighausen T, Bowser D, Mitchell A, Gedik G (2007). Assessing Financing, Education, Management and Policy Context for Strategic Planning of Human Resources in Health. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) [English, French and Russian version].

Bärnighausen T, Liu Y, Zhang X, Sauerborn R (2007). A contingent valuation study of willingness to pay for health insurance among informal sector workers in urban China. BMC Health Services Research, 7:114.

Newell ML, Bärnighausen T (2007). Male circumcision to cut HIV risk in the general population. The Lancet, 369: 617-619.

Anand S, Bärnighausen T (2007). Authors' reply: health workers and vaccination coverage in developing countries. The Lancet, 370: 481-482.

Anand S, Bärnighausen T (2007). Health workers and vaccination coverage in developing countries. The Lancet, 369: 1277-1285.

Zaba B, Marston M, Crampin A, Isingo R, Biraro S, Bärnighausen T, Lopman B, Lutalo T, Glynn J, Todd J (2007). Age-specific mortality patterns in HIV infected individuals: a comparative analysis of African community study data, AIDS, 21(suppl 6): S87-S96.

Nyirenda M, Hosegood V, Bärnighausen T, Newell ML (2007). Mortality levels and trends by HIV serostatus in rural South Africa, AIDS, 21(suppl 6): S73-S79.

Tanser F, Hosegood V, Bärnighausen T, Herbst K, Nyirenda M, Muhwava W, Newell C, Viljoen J, Mutevedzi T, Newell ML (2007). Cohort profile: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(5): 956-962.

Bärnighausen T (2008). "Deadly science: the Japanese biological warfare experiments on human beings in China" ("Tödliche Wissenschaft: Die japanischen Humanexperimente zur biologischen Kriegsführung in China"). In: Böhme, G., LaFleur, W., Shimazono, S. (eds.), Questionable medicine: immoral research in Germany, Japan and USA in the 20th century (Fragwürdige Medizin: Unmoralische Forschung in Deutschland, Japan und den USA im 20. Jahrhundert). Campus Publishing, Frankfurt.

Rice D, Bätzing-Feigenbaum J, Hosegood V, Tanser F, Hill C, Bärnighausen T, Herbst K, Newell ML (2006). Population and antenatal-based HIV prevalence estimates in a high contracepting female population in rural South Africa, BMC Public Health, 7:160.

Bärnighausen T (2006). "Communicating 'Tainted Science': The Japanese Biological Warfare Experiments on Human Subjects in China". In: Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. (eds.), History of Medical Ethics and the ethics of human experimentation. Franz Steiner Publishing Company, Stuttgart.

Bärnighausen T (2005). "Barbaric research: Japanese human experiments in occupied China - relevance; alternatives; ethics." In: Eckart, W. (ed.), Man, medicine and the state: the human body as an object of government sponsored research, 1920-1970. Franz Steiner Publishing Company, Stuttgart.

Anand S, Bärnighausen T (2004). Human resources and health outcomes: cross-country econometric study. The Lancet, 364: 1603-1609.

Bärnighausen T, Sauerborn R (2002). One hundred and eighteen years of the German health care system - are there any lessons learnt for low and middle income countries? Social Science & Medicine, 54: 1559-1587.

Liu D, Wang D, Xia L, Chen Y, Cheng X, Bärnighausen T (2002). Diagnostic value of MR in right ventricular heart disease. Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine, 41(3): 191-193.

Bärnighausen T (2002). The medical human experiments of the Japanese troops for biological warfare in China, 1932-1945 (Medizinische Humanexperimente der japanischen Truppen für Biologische Kriegsführung in China, 1932-1945). Peter Lang Publishing Company, Bern.

Bärnighausen T, Huo J, Xu H, Zhang X (2001). Comparison of the conditions and processes of the American, German, French and other international blood donation systems. (Mei, de, fa deng guo wuchang xianxue tiaojian he xianxue chengxu bijiao). Chinese Journal of Social Medicine, 1: 27-31.

Bärnighausen T (2000). The German health insurance system: principles, history, structure, governance and cost containment (Deguo yiliao baoxian xitong: yuanze, lishi, jiegou, guanli yu feiyong kongzhi). Rennmin weisheng chubanshe (Publishing company of the Ministry of Health, China). English and Chinese version.

Bärnighausen T, Sauerborn R, Zhang X, Cui B, Sun B, Xu H (1999). A historical overview and characterization of cost containment through budgeting in the outpatient sector of the German health care system (Deguo menzhen yusan kongzhide lishixing hiugu jiqi tezheng). Foreign Medical Science - Social Medicine (Guowai yixue - Shehui yixue), 17(4): 172-174.

Bärnighausen T, Sauerborn T, Zhang X, Cui B, Sun B, Xu H (1999). The incremental development of the German health insurance system (Deguo jiankang baoxiande zhubu fazhan jizhi). Foreign Medical Science - Social Medicine (Guowai yixue - Shehui yixue), 17(2): 68-72.

Bärnighausen T, Sauerborn R, Zhang X, Cui B, Sun B, Xu H (1999). A macroscopic analysis of cost containment in the German health care system (Deguo weisheng baojian xitong feiyong jiqi kongzhide hongguan fenxi). Foreign Medical Science - Social Medicine (Guowai yixue - Shehui yixue), 17(1): 9-15.