About

As an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Rutstein’s research focuses on translation of efficacious interventions into clinical implementation in resource-limited settings via behavioral and biomedical clinical trials and cost-effectiveness modeling. Dr. Rutstein has worked to develop HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention and treatment practices and policies that efficiently prioritize scarce resources, applying models of differentiated service delivery to examine new implementation strategies for HIV prevention and treatment programming. Her modeling work includes a diverse collection of decision-analytic and predictive models, the outcomes for which have helped guide WHO policies for HIV testing and case finding.

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  IGHID Investigators Participate in CROI Conference

  Investigators with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) participated in the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco, California, March 9-12. Following are some highlights.   In a CROI preview, Joe Eron, MD, was interviewed for the “Going Anti-Viral” IAS-USA podcast, discussing the state of HIV cure research … Read more

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  NICHD Grant Award Enables Researchers To Address Reasons For Vertical Transmission of HIV in Malawi As the Country Pursues Elimination Goals: Integrated Educational Cores Represent the Best of Capacity Building with Malawian Health Leaders

  Led by Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), has funded the project “Preventing Infant Infections with Implementation Science in Malawi.” (PRI3SM). The program, in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, comprises three studies to address gaps in prevention services, striving for elimination of vertical … Read more

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