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 and his team receive R01 funding for the Tracking Income Dynamics and Everyday Health Study (TIDES)
  September 2026
• 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

Recent Publications

• A new publication from BEGIN Lab members Aaron Richterman, MD MPH, Lizzie Bair, Eliza W. Kinsey, PhD, Charlotte Babbin, and Harsha Thirumurthy, along with Christina Roberto, and their coauthors, is now available in JAMA Network Open: “SNAP Benefit Cycles and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Adults With HIV.”
  JAMA Network Open- August 2026
• 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