Audrey Pettifor, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC
Areas of Interest
HIV prevention, Adolescents and young adults, Structural interventions, Implementation science
About
Audrey Pettifor, PhD, MPH is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on developing and evaluating HIV prevention and care interventions among adolescents and young adults globally. Dr. Pettifor has expertise on HIV prevention, HIV testing, the HIV treatment cascade, implementation science, and structural interventions among adolescents and young adults. Dr. Pettifor has worked in South Africa since 1996 and is an Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Pettifor has led a large portfolio of NIH-funded research on HIV prevention and care among adolescents and adults and has published over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is MPI of a Fogarty D43 training grant in Implementation Science for HIV prevention with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa which she has led for close to 10 years and is a member of the Fogarty Adolescent HIV Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA). She is co-director of the UNC CFAR Developmental Core and is co-chair of the NIH HPTN adolescent science committee. She is also currently leading a trial in the US Adolescent Trials Network among LGBTQ+ adolescents to evaluate the effect of home and community-based PrEP distribution on adherence. Dr.Pettifor brings her extensive expertise in HIV prevention with young women in South Africa and her expertise in using implementation science to evaluate effective prevention modalities to improve implementation in both Africa and the U.S.
Education
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Undergraduate
University of Virginia
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MPH
University of California
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PhD
University of California, Berkeley