Georges Reniers
Georges Reniers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Most of his work has been on the demography of African populations. He has published on methodological issues in the measurement and estimation of HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality, and on the behavioral mechanisms that account for the unequal spread of HIV. He is particularly interested in the interplay between individual agency and marriage market constraints, and their implications for individual exposure to HIV and population-level HIV prevalence. His current research focuses on Malawi, South Africa and Ethiopia. In South Africa Reniers is studying the impact that community-based interventions have on the uptake of health services. In Ethiopia his research tracks AIDS mortality following the rollout of an antiretroviral program. Highlights of recent publications include “Polygyny and the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a case of benign concurrency” (2010) and “Refusal bias in HIV prevalence estimates from nationally representative seroprevalence surveys” (2009) inAIDS, and “Marital strategies for regulating exposure to HIV” in Demography (2008). Reniers received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for the United Nations in Ethiopiaprior to entering graduate school.