Experts Related to "RTI Global Gender Center"
Ariane van der Straten
Senior Fellow, Director, Women’s Global Health Imperative
Ariane van der Straten, PhD, is an expert in female-initiated HIV-prevention methods. Her research focuses on acceptability and adherence to new biomedical HIV-prevention methods and multipurpose technologies for contraception and HIV prevention...
Elizabeth McClure
Perinatal Epidemiologist, Center for Clinical Research Network Coordination
Elizabeth McClure has more than 15 years of experience in leading global research in maternal and newborn health. Since 2001, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists, she has served as an investigator for the...
Deborah A. Gibbs
Senior Health and Social Policy Analyst
Deborah A. Gibbs, MSPH, has more than 30 years of experience in developing evaluation designs that combine qualitative and quantitative methods. She currently leads four studies addressing domestic human trafficking—including studies of human...
Jennifer Hardison Walters
Research Social Scientist
Jennifer Hardison Walters has 16 years of experience conducting applied research and evaluating programs that serve vulnerable populations, including those involved with the criminal justice system. Her research experience spans prisoner reentry...
Wendee Wechsberg
Director, RTI Global Gender Center; Director, Substance Abuse, Gender, and Applied Research
Wendee Wechsberg, PhD, has more than 20 years of clinical experience and has directed outpatient drug-free, methadone, and residential substance abuse treatment programs. Dr. Wechsberg has devoted her career to applied research, using both...
Kelle Barrick
Research Criminologist
Kelle Barrick has 15 years of experience in criminal justice and criminological research. She broadly focuses on producing empirical research to inform the improvement and reform of processes and programs across the criminal justice system....
Jennifer Lorvick
Associate Director, Urban Health Program
Jennifer Lorvick, DrPH, has more than two decades of experience implementing community-based research with urban poor populations, focusing on infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. Her work...
Laura Nyblade
Senior research health policy analyst
Laura Nyblade is an expert on stigma and discrimination in the context of public health. As a senior technical advisor for RTI’s Global Health Division, she leads several initiatives aimed at measuring and reducing stigma, especially surrounding...
Robert Timmons
Chief of Party, Health for Life
Robert Timmons, PhD, is a public health expert with more than 30 years of experience developing, managing, and advising on maternal and child health, reproductive health, including family planning, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS programs. He has...
Miriam A. Hartmann
Public Health Analyst
Miriam A. Hartmann is a principal investigator in the Women’s Global Health Imperative (WGHI), a group within RTI dedicated to improving the health status of women and girls around the world through rigorous epidemiologic, biomedical, socio-...