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

• Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH, was quoted in Philadelphia Gay News discussing the importance of stable housing in HIV care.
  Philadelphia Gay News- June 2026
• BEGIN Lab’s Aaron Richterman, MD MPH, and Harsha Thirumurthy have a new article in The Atlantic, “Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives,” which examines when cash-transfer programs improve health outcomes.
  The Atlantic - February 2026
• 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 communities
  Billy Penn at WHYY - November 18, 2025

Recent Publications

• Dr. Aaron Richterman, Charlotte Babbin, and Dr. Eliza Kinsey co-authored "SNAP Disruption During a Government Shutdown and Implications for Chronic Disease Self-Management: A Qualitative Study" 
  Health Affairs Scholar - July 2026
• In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, Aaron Richterman and Harsha Thirumurthy discuss the article “Rx Kids: Designing Cash Transfers as Health Policy,” which provides new insights into when cash transfers can most effectively improve health outcomes.
  The Lancet Public Health- June 2026
• BEGIN Lab colleagues Harsha Thirumurthy and Aaron Richterman contributed to a new publication examining how unconditional cash transfers may influence health behaviors among low-income primary care patients
  Social Science & Medicine Journal- February 2026