Karen Kroeger, PhD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NCHHSTP, Division of STD Prevention
1600 Clifton Road, MS E-44
Atlanta, GA
USA 30333
knk2@cdc.gov

Biographical Sketch:
April 2009-present, Research Anthropologist, CDC, Division of STD Prevention, Behavioral Interventions Research Branch June 2004-March 2009, Behavioral Scientist, CDC, Global AIDS Program, Monitoring and Evaluation and Prevention Branches. September 2002-June 2004--Senior Health Research Scientist, Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Atlanta, GA September 2000-August 2002, Postdoctoral Fellow in STD Prevention, Washington University School of Medicine and CDC, Division of STD Prevention More than a decade of experience working in HIV/STI prevention with high risk populations, including sex workers, persons who use drugs, and men who have sex with men, in international and domestic settings. Author and co-author on publications and presentations related to STI/HIV prevention among high risk populations in national and international settings. Technical expertise and trainer in qualitative data collection and analysis, including rapid ethnographic assessment.