Monisha Sharma MSPH, PhD

Acting Assistant Professor, Global Health, University of Washington

Dr. Monisha Sharma, MSPH, PhD, is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health. She received her Masters in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Her research interests include mathematical modeling and cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV testing and linkage to care interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the Principal Investigator of a K01 award to design an intervention into increase men’s uptake of HIV self-testing and clinic linkage in Uganda. During her joint postdoctoral fellowship with UW and the Harvard School of Public Health, she worked to develop a mathematical model of HIV/HPV co-infection to project the cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer prevention strategies in South Africa. She is currently working on a scale up project of Assisted Partner Notification services in Kenya and collaborates with the Institute for Disease Modeling to project the impact of scaling up point-of-care viral load monitoring for patients on ART in sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

  1. Cumbe, VFJ, Muanido, A, Turner, M, Jala, JN Jr, Armando, EE, Faduque, F et al.. Effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to optimise outpatient mental, neurological, and substance-use disorder treatment cascades in Mozambique: a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet Psychiatry. 2026;13 (4):316-326. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(26)00034-9. PubMed PMID:41862257 PubMed Central PMC13099012.
  2. Klabbers, RE, Mugyenyi, A, Nsubuga, R, Asaba, G, Faustin, Z, Kiragga, A et al.. Protocol for Head StART: A hybrid type II cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating community ART delivery for people newly diagnosed with HIV in refugee settlements in Uganda. PLoS One. 2026;21 (2):e0340916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0340916. PubMed PMID:41758805 PubMed Central PMC12948099.
  3. Otieno, G, Masyuko, S, Roy Paladhi, U, Kariithi, E, Sharma, M, Kingston, H et al.. Improving HIV assisted partner services outcomes by eliciting additional partners after the initial encounter. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026;6 (2):e0004406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004406. PubMed PMID:41632741 PubMed Central PMC12867224.
  4. Graham, SM, Otieno, FO, Kimani, J, Barrientos, A, Soge, OO, Sharma, M et al.. World Health Organization-Recommended Periodic Presumptive Treatment Versus Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for Sexually Transmitted Infection Control Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Kenya: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2026;15 :e81113. doi: 10.2196/81113. PubMed PMID:41494183 PubMed Central PMC12820545.
  5. Kareithi, T, Roche, SD, Meisner, A, Omollo, V, Ong'wen, PA, Harkey, K et al.. Testing different models of pharmacy-based HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis initiation and management in Kenya: protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2025;27 (1):95. doi: 10.1186/s13063-025-09384-7. PubMed PMID:41466427 PubMed Central PMC12866470.
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