Calvin Chiu

Calvin Chiu, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging within the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on global health equity, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, with field work conducted in Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. He is affiliated with the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF.

Dr. Chiu's educational background includes:

• PhD in Health Economics from University of California Berkeley (December 2023)
• MA in Economics from Boston University (May 2014)
• BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University (May 2014)

Dr. Chiu's research spans multiple critical areas in global health, with particular emphasis on child and adolescent health, health economics, HIV/AIDS, implementation science, maternal health, reproductive health, and women's health. His work often examines health service delivery systems, economic barriers to care, and innovative approaches to improving access to essential health services in resource-limited settings. He has conducted extensive research on HIV service delivery, contraceptive access, and maternal healthcare across Sub-Saharan Africa, with a strong focus on understanding provider behavior, patient decision-making, and system-level interventions to improve health outcomes.

His publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on health economics and implementation science in global health contexts, particularly examining interventions related to HIV care, reproductive health services, and maternal health. His recent work has increasingly incorporated human-centered design approaches and behavioral economics principles to address barriers in healthcare access and delivery. Dr. Chiu's research often employs mixed methods, including cluster randomized trials, economic analyses, and qualitative assessments of health system performance.

Dr. Chiu collaborates extensively with researchers across institutions, particularly with colleagues at UCSF including Jenny Liu, Laura Packel, Maddy Griffith, Sneha Challa, and Rakesh Ghosh. His work has been referenced in policy sources and picked up by news outlets, indicating its relevance to both academic and practical health policy discussions.