Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH
Associate Scholar
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Pennsylvania
- Haiti
- Health Disparities | Health Equity | HIV/AIDS | Poverty Reduction | Social protection | Tuberculosis
Languages: English, Haitian Creole(proficient)
BIO STATEMENT
Dr. Aaron Richterman is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines how poverty and food insecurity shape individual and population health outcomes—particularly those related to infectious diseases—and how social safety nets can improve these outcomes.
He employs diverse research methodologies to evaluate the health impacts of poverty reduction and social protection programs, as well as to design and test innovative economic interventions that promote healthy behaviors and improve clinical outcomes. His work spans high- and low-income settings, emphasizing community–academic and public–academic partnerships.
Clinically, Dr. Richterman has expertise in HIV and cares for patients living with HIV in the outpatient setting. He earned his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed the Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he focused on HIV, tuberculosis, and cholera in rural Haiti. Earlier in his career, he conducted HIV immunopathogenesis research at the National Institutes of Health and investigated novel uses of deceased organ donors with HIV while at Penn.
Recent Global Health Projects
Characterized the relationship between food security and cholera outcomes in Haiti
Ongoing cohort study of patients with tuberculosis in rural Haiti, characterizing the relationship between food security and clinical outcomes
Select Publications
Richterman A, Thirumurthy H. The effects of cash transfer programmes on HIV-related outcomes in 42 countries from 1996 to 2019. Nat Hum Behav. 2022 Jul 18;. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01414-7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35851840.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01414-7
Richterman A, Bosire R, Marcus N, Bair EF, Agot K, Thirumurthy H. Trends in Transactional Sex Among Women at Risk for HIV in Rural Kenya During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 1;5(7):e2220981. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.20981. PubMed PMID: 35788674; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9257559. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35788674/
Last Updated: 11 November 2025