David I. Levine is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration at Berkeley Haas, where he chairs the Economic Analysis and Policy Group.  He is past chair of the University’s Center for Health Research, of the Advisory Board for Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).

Dr. Levine’s research focuses on understanding and overcoming barriers to improving health in poor nations.  This research has examined both how to increase demand for health-promoting goods such as safer cookstoves and water filters, and how to change health-related behaviors such as handwashing with soap.  He has run several dozen randomized trials and qualitative studies in poor nations on these topics. An ongoing project is Hygiene Heroes, which is developing and testing a school-based health curriculum. He has also written extensively on organizational learning (and failures to learn).  His academic research has been published in the journals Science, Environmental Science and Technology, and The American Economic Review.

Levine was an undergraduate at Berkeley. He has taught at the Haas School since receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1987. Levine has also had visiting positions at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.