CDC
Global AIDS Program
2280 Lilongwe Place
Dulles,
VA
USA
20189
Email:
agottlieb@mw.cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Amy Gottlieb currently serves as the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer for CDC GAP with a specialized focus on health informatics to optimize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health care settings. She chairs the Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Task Force and plays a critical leadership role in national expansion efforts of EDS for antiretroviral therapy. She works closely with the Ministry of Health to promote the use of standards in health information systems, to develop core data sets and indicators to enable interoperability across systems, and to ensure that data are protected.
As a graduate research assistant, she developed and implemented a Web-based program management and tracking system for the Texas Department of State Health Services’ Bureau of Chronic Disease, including individual programmatic systems for Tobacco Prevention and Control, Obesity, Diabetes, School Health and Cardiovascular Health and Wellness.
Ms. Gottlieb also worked as an independent consultant (2004 – 2005) for the CDC in their Office on Smoking and Health in order to conduct a national assessment of Web-based reporting systems for tobacco control programs. This study provided insight to lessons learned and best practices throughout the processes of planning, developing, implementing and maintaining public health information systems. Her research set the foundation for future studies, including the value and use of common data elements to achieve interoperability across reporting systems.
She began her public health career as a Peace Corps volunteer (1995 – 1997) in rural Jamaica where she taught environmental science, spearheaded an AIDS awareness campaign, and introduced a new sport, the triathlon, to enhance community development, generate income, and promote healthy lifestyles.
Ms. Gottlieb received her Master’s degree in International Community Development from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health (1998 – 2000). She honed her monitoring and evaluation skills while conducting research for her thesis in Bolivia, working in collaboration with Pan-American Health Organization to evaluate the impacts of a new water sanitation module on health.
Ms. Gottlieb also worked as a strategic programmer for Motorola (2000 – 2002) in their Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Division. She was responsible for monitoring all EHS data for Motorola’s world-wide semiconductor sites and for writing technical environmental and annual reports.
Ms. Gottlieb is currently working towards her interdisciplinary PhD in Health Education and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin (2003 – Present). Her primary research interests pertain to knowledge management and how data and information transfer to knowledge and decision-making within the organization.