Audrey E. Pettifor
Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Epidemiology
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Email: apettif@email.unc.edu
Audrey Pettifor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Dr Pettifor's research focuses on determinants of HIV/STI infection in sub-Saharan Africa with the goal of identifying modifiable risk factors and developing novel interventions to prevent new HIV infections&emdash;particularly in young women. Dr Pettifor is currently PI of an NIH R01/HPTN 068 which explores the effect of providing cash transfers to young South African women and their families conditional on school attendance with the goal of reducing HIV incidence combined with a community level intervention focused on mobilizing young men to change negative risk behavior and gender norms. Pettifor is also co-Chair of HPTN 062 which is a study to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a behavioral intervention developed for individuals with Acute HIV Infection (AHI) in Malawi and is co-PI of an MP3/R01 exploring the potential of a combined behavioral and therapeutic intervention for individuals diagnosed with AHI to reduce the onward transmission of HIV. Dr Pettifor received her PhD in Epidemiology and her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from UC Berkeley.
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