Monica Biradavolu is the CEO and Founder of QualAnalytics and is a Scholar-in-Residence at American University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Duke University, and has held academic appointments at Yale, Duke and American University. She studies the implementation of development projects globally with a sociological lens. She has researched HIV/AIDS interventions with sex workers in India, conditions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraqi Kurdistan, multisector nutrition programming in Nepal, infant and young child feeding practices in Nigeria, and education interventions to improve teacher attendance in Haiti. She advocates for mixed methods evaluations, integrating rigorous qualitative methods with quantitative surveys. Her publications have appeared in the American Sociological Review, World Development, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Global Health, AIDS, AIDS Care, Psychosomatics, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, and Public Health Reports.
BOOK
Indian Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: The Making of a Transnational Techno-Capitalist (2008)
This innovative study examines the emergence and growing power of a new group of immigrant Indians to the United States: the transnational techno-capitalist class of entrepreneurs operating at the upper echelons of the hi-tech industry in Silicon Valley and Bangalore.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS USING QUALITATIVE DATA
- 2016 Pomeroy-Stevens, Amanda, Madhukar B Shrestha, Monica Biradavolu, Kusum Hachhethu, Robin Houston, Indu Sharma and Jolene Wun, “Prioritizing and Funding Nepal’s Multisector Nutrition Plan,” Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 37(4), S151-S169.
- 2016 Biradavolu, Monica, Keenan Withers, Yujiang Jia and Suad Kapetanovic,“Factors Influencing the Delivery of HIV-Related Services to Severely Mentally Ill Individuals: The Providers’ Perspective,” Psychosomatics, 57(1), 64-70.
- 2016 Keenan Withers, Monica Biradavolu, Yujiang Jia and Suad Kapetanovic, “How Locally-Specific Factors May Impact the Delivery of HIV-Related Services to the Severely Mentally Ill in Washington, DC,” Letter to the Editor, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 30(2), 49-50.
- 2015 Brady, David, Monica Biradavolu, and Kim M. Blankenship, “Brokers and the Earnings of Female Sex Workers in India,” American Sociological Review, 80(6), 1123-1149.
- 2015 Biradavolu, Monica, Kim M. Blankenship, Annie George and Nimesh Dhungana. “Unintended Consequences of Community-based Monitoring Systems: Lessons from an HIV Prevention Intervention for Sex workers in South India” World Development, 67, 1-10.
- 2015 George, Annie, Monica Biradavolu, Kim M. Blankenship, Nimesh Dhungana and Nehanda Tankasala. “Sex workers in HIV Prevention: From social change agents to peer educators.” Global Public Health, 10(1), 28-40.
- 2012 Biradavolu, Monica, Kim M. Blankenship, Asima Jena and Nimesh Dhungana. Structural Stigma, Sex Work and HIV: Contradictions and Lessons Learned from a Community-led Structural Intervention in Southern India. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012; 66: ii95-ii99.
- 2010 Blankenship, Kim M., Monica Biradavolu, Annie George and Asima Jena. Challenging the Stigmatization of Female Sex Workers Through a Community-led Structural Intervention: Learning from a Case Study of a Female Sex Worker Intervention in Andhra Pradesh, India. AIDS Care, 22(1): 1629-1636.
- 2009 Biradavolu, Monica R., Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena and Kim M. Blankenship. Can Sex Workers Regulate Police? Learning from an HIV Prevention Project for Sex Workers in Southern India. Social Science & Medicine, 68(8): 1541-1547.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS WITH QUANTITATIVE DATA
- 2015 Reed, Elizabeth, Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Argentina E. Servin, Monica Biradavolu, and Kim M. Blankenship. “Non-barrier Contraceptive Use and Relation to Condom Use Behaviour by Partner Type Among Female Sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2014-100918.
- 2013 Reed, Elizabeth, Jay G. Silverman, Barbara Stein, Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Monica Biradavolu, Alana Rosenberg, and Kim M. Blankenship. “Motherhood and HIV Risk Among Female Sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: The Need to Consider Women’s Life Contexts.” AIDS and Behavior, 17(2): 543-550.
- 2012 Toller Erausquin, Jennifer, Monica Biradavolu, Elizabeth Reed, Rebekah Buroway and Kim M. Blankenship. Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: The impact of a community mobilization intervention. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012; 66: ii49-ii54.
- 2011 Reed, Elizabeth, Jhumka Gupta, Monica Biradavolu, Vasavi Devireddy and Kim M. Blankenship. The Role of Housing in Determining HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: Considering Women’s Life Contexts. Social Science and Medicine, 72(5): 710-716.
- 2010 Reed, Elizabeth, Jhumka Gupta, Monica Biradavolu, Vasavi Devireddy and Kim M. Blankenship. The Context of Economic Insecurity & Relation to Violence and Risk Factors for HIV Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. Public Health Reports, 125 (4), 81-90.
- 2008 Blankenship, Kim M., Brooke S. West, Trace S. Kershaw and Monica R. Biradavolu. Power, Community Mobilization and Condom Use Practices Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India. AIDS, 22(Supplement 5): S109-S116.
- 2001 Lipkus, Isaac, Monica Biradavolu, Kathryn Fenn, Punam Keller and Barbara Rimer. Informing Women About Their Breast Cancer Risk: Truth and Consequences. Health Communication. 13(2): 205-226.
- 1999 Lipkus, Isaac, Yancey Crawford, Kathryn Fenn, Monica Biradavolu, Ruth Ann Binder, Al Marcus and Mondi Mason. Testing Different Formats for Communicating Colorectal Cancer Risk. Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives. 4:311- 324.