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 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.
Previously, 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 with both clinical and international public health experience in Africa, including HIV. 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 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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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. She also works 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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For 15 years, Beth has built a career in international project management. She leads AIDSTAR-One's team supporting technical leadership and project operations.
Previously, as VP/Director of Operations at AECOM International Development, she ensured contractual compliance, managed new business, and oversaw recruitment. Beth holds an M.A. in International Development from American University and has worked extensively overseas, most notably in Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Ukraine, Colombia, West Bank/Gaza, and the Philippines.
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An infectious disease specialist whose primary focus is HIV care and treatment, Bisola 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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JILL POSNER, PHD
Senior Advisor for Monitoring and Evaluation and Strategic Information
Jill has spent more than 30 years conducting research and evaluation in family planning, maternal and child health, and women's engagement in peace processes and national politics. She previously served as director of monitoring and evaluation for the Centre for Development and Population Activities.
Jill's portfolio also includes extensive experience conducting research in West Africa and Latin America on such topics as HIV prevention for most-at-risk groups, contraceptive use, and child care.
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Kai has over 20 years of public health experience as a clinician, behavioral science researcher, and monitoring and evaluation advisor. She is responsible for integrating gender approaches into AIDSTAR-One's portfolio.
Kai also serves as technical lead for AIDSTAR-One's gender-specific activities. These include developing a compendium of programs for most-at-risk groups that integrate gender into their strategies, and compiling evidence on successful strategies to reduce gender-based violence.
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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.
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Maryanne has over 20 years of experience in adult education and training facilitation in infant and young child feeding, women's nutrition, and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
Maryanne previously served as the community outreach and training coordinator for the LINKAGES Project, where she participated in country project design, assessments and evaluations, and outreach coordination. She has helped train health professionals and community health workers in 17 countries worldwide.
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