Dr. Aditya Khanna

Biography

Aditya Khanna is an Associate Professor in Behavioral Social Sciences at Brown University. His work is centered on computational social science, specializing in modeling biobehavioral health systems to inform policy initiatives that promote health equity. His research primarily focuses on preventing new HIV infections among sexual and gender minorities (SGM), particularly among people of color. He has expanded his research portfolio to include substance use behaviors, incarceration, breast cancer screening, and COVID-19. Aiming to reform policies and implement effective biobehavioral interventions, Khanna often confronts the challenge of a lack of empirical data to guide effective planning, particularly before the implementation of interventions. His modeling work is significant for filling gaps by integrating data from diverse sources to create model-based representations of real-world systems. By utilizing these models, he generates data components of public health systems that are already known. Collaborating with behavioral social scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, biologists, and community stakeholders, Khanna has led modeling efforts across various public health initiatives. His expertise in network analysis, agent-based modeling, and predictive analytics informs initiatives aimed at achieving health equity, and he is currently directing efforts toward designing interventions for the Getting to Zero HIV Elimination initiative in Illinois.

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