The Global Health Lab Team
Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH is an infectious disease fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Richterman is interested in the relationship between poverty, food security, individual and population outcomes for infectious diseases, and the use of the social safety nets to improve these outcomes. He worked at the National Institutes of Health in Irini Sereti’s laboratory, studying the immunopathogenesis of HIV. While attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, his research focused on the potential for the use of deceased organ donors with HIV in Philadelphia. He then completed the Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where his clinical and research focus was on HIV, tuberculosis, and cholera in rural Haiti.
In The News
- Dr. Aaron Richterman was quoted in a new article by Billy Penn at WHYY. “Not a ‘scale back,’ this is a dismantling of our program”: HIV funding cuts impact vulnerable communitiesBilly Penn at WHYY - November 18
- Dr. Aaron Richterman was recently quoted in a New York Times article, “Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds.”The New York Times · October 15, 2025
- Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy and Dr. Aaron Richterman featured in Penn's "Future of Health and Health Care conference" to discuss their global work.Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Recent Publications
- Dr. Aaron Richterman and colleagues publish study on cash transfer support for pregnant women with HIV in rural HaitiAIDS and behavior - November 6, 2025
- A new Lancet publication led by Dr. Aaron Richterman and Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy, Division Chief of Health Policy, examines how government-led cash transfer programs improve health in low- and middle-income countries.The Lancet - November 11, 2025
- The health dividend of cash transfer programmesLancet Public Health · May 2025Richterman, A., Maughan-Brown, B., Thirumurthy, H
