Sebastian Linnemayr

Sebastian Linnemayr

Associate Director, Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID); Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Sebastian Linnemayr is an economist at the RAND Corporation; associate director of the RAND Center on Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID), part of RAND Labor and Population; and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His current research focuses on the use of economic incentives and the application of insights from behavioral economics to improve complex, chronic health behaviors. He travels frequently to Uganda where he is implementing several interventions funded by the National Institutes of Health to increase medication adherence among people living with HIV. Linnemayr joined RAND in August 2009 after having finished his position as postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.