With extensive expertise in the areas of HIV, reproductive health/family planning, and child health, Ed has guided USAID-funded programs for more than 20 years.
Before joining JSI and AIDSTAR-One, he was deputy director for the USAID-funded YouthNet Project, implementing global activities to improve the reproductive health and HIV prevention behaviors of youth. Ed has lived in seven Latin American countries and served as a population and health advisor for USAID Missions in Guatemala and Peru.
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With more than 12 years of experience in health communications, Erin leads AIDSTAR-One's efforts to build a knowledge management system to serve the global HIV/AIDS community.
After joining JSI in 2002, she worked in communications at the Population, Health, Nutrition & Information project and the USAID | DELIVER Project. Throughout her career, she has created effective messages to support USAID Missions and raise awareness about USAID-funded programs among policymakers and the international public health community.
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Maria Claudia is a family nurse practitioner who brings both clinical and international public health experience in Africa, including HIV, to JSI. Maria Claudia provides technical leadership for the HIV counseling and testing portfolio of AIDSTAR-One. The Counseling and Testing activities include providing technical assistance in Africa and Asia on home-based and provider-initiated testing and counseling, documenting best practices in counseling and testing, and creating fora to help move certain counseling and testing models forward.
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Andrew's portfolio of expertise in domestic and international public health is built on two decades of experience in business development, monitoring and evaluation, HIV surveillance and reporting, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and research.
Andrew joined JSI in 1995 and is director of the JSI/World Education Center for HIV and project director for both the CDC-funded Global AIDS Program, IQC contracts, and the JSI subcontract to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's Project HEART.
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As manager of AIDSTAR-One's project operations, JSI's Mike Hammes draws from 17 years of experience managing financial and administrative operations, both in staff positions at both headquarters and on large donor-funded projects outside of the U.S. He has also developed and managed financial sector development projects and has worked internationally in many regions, including Southeast Asia and East Africa, and in former member states of the Soviet Union. Mike earned an MBA in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
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MARCY LEVY, MS
Orphans and Vulnerable Children Team Leader
Marcy's strengths as a public health specialist are based on more than a dozen years of experience in HIV programming, monitoring and evaluation, maternal and child health, and youth programming. For the past five years, she has also worked with the HIV team at JSI and is the senior advisor on the PEPFAR-funded Urban Health Extension Program in Ethiopia.
Her field experience includes work in Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Lyn is a gender analysis expert with 20 years of experience in program planning and assessment, training design and facilitation, and grants management. She has developed and managed effective policies and strategies for NGOs and government agencies and provided technical assistance in over 30 countries to improve projects in agriculture, environment, education, health, HIV, small business, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She has also authored widely-disseminated field resources.
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An infectious disease specialist whose primary focus is HIV care and treatment, JSI's Bisola Ojikutu is a leader in treatment programming and research in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She previously served as director of the Office of International Programs and director of South African HIV/AIDS Programs and is the founding director of the Umndeni Family Care Program, a comprehensive initiative to improve access to care for women and children in rural South Africa.
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Over the past 10 years, Quail has provided management and technical expertise in public health interventions in Africa and Asia. She has extensive experience in injection safety and occupational health as well as strong expertise in monitoring and evaluating public health programs in the field. Quail has provided management in M&E for JSI Research and Training's Health Services Project in Indonesia and direct technical support for the Making Medical Injections Safer Project.
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Aysa brings over 15 years experience providing technical assistance and managing activities for international and national NGOs and multilateral organizations to JSI, with a focus on HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health, gender equity, and adolescent health. Her skills include designing and managing programs and research, building partnerships and program linkages, and planning training and advocacy activities. She currently manages field activities in Latin America and Tanzania.
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An expert in HIV prevention and reproductive health, Sharon leads AIDSTAR-One's prevention team. With training in social demography and epidemiology, she advises applied research on health interventions.
Sharon has provided technical assistance to foreign governments and developed program and grants portfolios for nonprofits and foundations. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Peace Corps Association and participates in the UNAIDS Prevention Reference Group in addition to her work at JSI.
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