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. Ekwunife, OI, Kuo, AP, Banerjee, P, Zhang, S, Kiptinness, C, Omollo, V et al.. Understanding the cost of pharmacy-delivered HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis service delivery in Kenya: findings from pilot studies. BMC Health Serv Res. 2025;25 (1):1536. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13681-x. PubMed PMID:41299640 PubMed Central PMC12659100.
  2. Kwach, B, Odoyo, JB, Lauff, AR, Omollo, V, Rono, B, Ogello, V et al.. Evaluating the effectiveness of a One-Stop PrEP Care model to enhance HIV prevention: a protocol for a cluster-randomised trial in Kisumu County, Kenya. BMJ Open. 2025;15 (9):e097792. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097792. PubMed PMID:40921636 PubMed Central PMC12421193.
  3. Wang, M, Moodley, P, Khanyile, M, Bulo, E, Zondi, M, Naidoo, K et al.. Cost and clinical flow of point-of-care urine tenofovir testing for treatment monitoring among people living with HIV initiating ART in South Africa. J Int AIDS Soc. 2025;28 (7):e70004. doi: 10.1002/jia2.70004. PubMed PMID:40660747 PubMed Central PMC12260116.
  4. Pfau, B, Saravis, A, Cox, SN, Wu, L, Wittenauer, R, Callen, E et al.. User preferences on long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in Eastern and Southern Africa: a scoping review. BMC Public Health. 2025;25 (1):2361. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23529-y. PubMed PMID:40611019 PubMed Central PMC12225200.
  5. Wagenaar, BH, Muanido, A, Turner, M, Lovero, KL, Darnell, D, Sharma, M et al.. Safety planning and transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescent suicide prevention in Mozambique: study protocol for the SPI/TCBT-S hybrid effectiveness/implementation cluster randomized trial. BMC Psychiatry. 2025;25 (1):656. doi: 10.1186/s12888-025-07102-w. PubMed PMID:40598126 PubMed Central PMC12219529.
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