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

MSc Financial Economics, 2006, SOAS, University of London

Medcial Specialist Family Medicine, 2002

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

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

Wallrauch, C., Heller, T., Lessells, R., Kekane, E., Bärnighausen, T., Newell, M.-L. (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 [in press].

Bärnighausen, T., Tanser, F., Hallet, T., Newell, M.-L. (2009). Prioritizing communities for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses [in press].

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.

Heller, T., Lessells, R., Wallrauch, C., Bärnighausen, T., Cooke, G., Mhlongo, L., Master, I., Newell, M.-L. (2009). Community-based treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in rural KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease [in press].

Ndirangu, J., Bärnighausen, T., Tanser, F., Tint, K., Newell, M.-L. (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, 7 September 2009 [Epub ahead of print].

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, M.-L. (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.

Tanser, F., Bärnighausen, T., Cooke, G., Newell, M.-L. (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, M.-L., 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., O'Brien, J., Privor-Dumm, L., Friedman, A. (2009). Expanding immunization coverage for children. Copenhagen Consensus Center Best Practice Paper Series, Copenhagen Consensus Center, Fredriksberg.

Herbst, K., Cooke, G., Bärnighausen, T., Kany Kany, A., Tanser, F., Newell, M.-L. (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. (2009). "The HIV epidemic and HIV treatment". In: Nompu, N. State of the population of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal and United Nations Food Programme [forthcoming]. 

Bärnighausen, T. (2009). "The ethics of using data generated in the barbaric human experiments of the Japanese units for biological warfare in occupied China, 1932-1945." In: Nie, J.B., Kleinman, A., (eds.), Japanese wartime medical atrocities: comparative perspectives on science, history and ethics. Routledge, New York [in press].

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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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.

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 version 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, M.-L., 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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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, M.-L. (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.