第166场兴泉全球健康讲座
No. 166 Aegon-Industrial Global Health Seminar Series

Abstract: 

This talk will present how Behavioral Science – with its specific scope and impact value – can contribute to tackle global health challenges. Behavioral evidence on what influences health behaviors can improve the design of policies and programs, communications, and products and services aimed at achieving better heath for all. Behavioral Science can contribute to and complement other public health efforts that focus on the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. Within the UN and WHO specifically, there are growing calls to use Behavioral Science as part of policy development, program design, research, communication and advocacy, and capacity building and training. Prof. Nisa will specifically discuss the Behavioral Sciences for Better Health Initiative at WHO.

Speaker Bio: 

Prof. Claudia Nisa is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University. Her research program focuses on the effectiveness of behavioral interventions to promote healthy and sustainable living. Her ultimate goal is to translate behavioral science into theoretically-grounded practices and implementation research to tackle critical social challenges, and to respond to calls for better informed evidence-based policies. She is a classically-trained social psychologist, with a MSc in Economics and Social Policy from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and a MSc in Decision Sciences and a PhD in Social Policy, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has served a postdoctoral researcher to Harvard Medical School, ETH-Zurich in Singapore, and New York University in Abu Dhabi.