Improving HABIT: households, attitudes, and behaviours to increase toilet use
This study tests the impact of a behaviourally-informed intervention in increasing toilet use amongst toilet-owning households in rural Bihar.
Nayan Kumar leads fieldwork and training for OPM India. He has more than 30 years of experience working on projects across India including National Family Health Survey, District Level Household and Facility Survey, and Annual Health Survey. For OPM India, he has successfully led large scale surveys like Newborn Survival study for PHFI across 30,000 households in Bihar. He has a PhD in economics.
This study tests the impact of a behaviourally-informed intervention in increasing toilet use amongst toilet-owning households in rural Bihar.
Using an experimental framework we have studied the impact of mobile health initiatives.
This project presents insights on mechanisms to curate context specific technical support for health systems strengthening.