Resumé
Vasanthi has been a doctoral candidate at the Professorship of Behavioral Science for Disease Prevention and Health Care at the TUM School of Medicine and Health since January 2023. She predominantly works at the intersections of behavioral and development economics and her doctoral research involves studying drivers of preventive care under-delivery in low- and middle-income settings.
Since May 2024, she has also been a part-time research associate at the Professorship for Global Health at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. As part of this role, she works on an ERC project that studies interventions to reduce economic violence against women in India.
She holds a BA in Economics from Stella Maris College in India, and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick in the UK. She has previously worked with development research organizations like LEAD at Krea University (IFMR) and J-PAL, where she was part of multiple randomized controlled trials studying thematic areas such as poverty and cognition, and informal labor markets in India.
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
Sudharsanan N, Subramonia Pillai V, Favaretti C, Jose J, Jose S, McConnel M, Ali MK. Clinician adherence to hypertension screening and care guidelines: evidence from direct measurements using unannounced standardized patients in urban India. JAMA Network Open. 2023; 12(6), e2347164-e2347164.
Schwab J, Wachinger J, Munana R, Nabiryo M, Sekitoleko I, Cazier J, Ingenhoff R, Favaretti C, Subramonia Pillai V, Weswa I, Wafula J, Emmrich JV, Bärnighausen T, Knauf F, Knauss S, Nalwadda CK, Sudharsanan N, Kalyesubula R, McMahon SA. Design Research to Embed mHealth into a Community-Led Blood Pressure Management System in Uganda: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 2023; 12(1), e46614.
Working papers:
Subramonia Pillai V, Favaretti C, Aditi K, Murthy S, Ali MK, McConnel M, Sudharsanan N. Under-Delivery of Preventive Care and Patient Influence on Clinician Behavior: Evidence from India. SSRN Abstract No 4597708. 2023.
Favaretti C, Subramonia Pillai V, Aditi K, Murthy S, Ali MK, McConnel M, Sudharsanan N. Bundling WhatsApp reminders with information targeting false beliefs to reduce missed follow-up visits for adults with hypertension: a randomized control trial in Punjab, India. OSF 21.07.2022. 2022.