Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
615 N. Wolfe
Baltimore,
MD
USA
21215
aswartze@jhsph.edu
Biographical Sketch:
2010-Present -- Senior Research Coordinator, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA
2002-2008 -- Public Health Advior, Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
1999-2002 -- Research Coordinator, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Authored commentary advocating for national sexual health strategy publised in JAMA in 2010
Led national evaluations of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services in Ethiopia and Cambodia
Independently provided technical assistance to CDC and USAID field offices and ministries of health in resource-limited countries to develop, implement and evaluate national PMTCT programs
Collaborated with the World Health Organization to develop a national evidence-based PMTCT training curriculum for train healthcare workers and program managers in resource-limited countries
Provided management and technical supervision to a multi-site randomized controlled trial of a behavioral HIV/AIDS and HCV prevention intervention for young injection drug users
Recipient of several training grants and awards and CDC awards