Executive Director
CAMI/Public Health Institute
312 Natoma Street
Folsom,
CA
USA
95630
byh@cami-health.org
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Bethany Young Holt is a Principle Investigator (PI) with the Public Health Institute and directs the Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI). CAMI is an international coalition of reproductive and sexual health researchers, clinicians, advocates, and donors working to advance the development and introduction of technologies that simultaneously address multiple reproductive health needs, namely unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and other reproductive tract infections. Dr. Holt has a broad background in sexual and reproductive health epidemiology and prevention in the US and in Africa, including multi-level analyses, social determinants of health, microbicide acceptability studies, and market research. As the PI or co-investigator on a range of studies, she has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams of researchers, including clinicians, product developers, socio-behavioral and market researchers, fluid mechanical engineers, as well as advocates and community groups. She founded CAMI (Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations) to help bridge the silos between family planning, STI and HIV prevention and advance a more holistic approach towards women’s health. Dr. Holt has a BS in Biology from the College of Wooster and received her MPH in Maternal and Child Health and PhD in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley. She has nearly 20 years of experience working in the area of reproductive health and HIV/STI prevention in the U.S. and internationally, including traineeships at the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal; and Peace Corps volunteer and relief work with the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Mauritania, Senegal and Ethiopia.