Caryl Feldacker
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Research
In May 2009, I will receive my PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education. My dissertation, “Is it who you are or where you live? A mixed-method exploration of associations between people and place in the context of HIV in rural Malawi,” examined the linkages between HIV, individual behaviors, and neighborhood effects. Within the spatial health research group, I worked on cholera prediction models in Vietnam and Bangladesh, exploring associations between environmental drivers, socio-economic factors and cholera outbreaks. Currently, I lead MEASURE Evaluation’s Population-Health-Environment project to improve monitoring and evaluation of community-based integrated development programs.
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Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
Ph.D. Health Behavior and Health Education, May 2009
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Master's in Public Health, December 2001
Concentration: International Health and Development
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts with Honors in African-American Studies, May 1996
Funding
IGERT Predoctoral Trainee, Carolina Population Center, 2005-2009
Presentations
Feldacker, C. 2009. Area-level Influences on Individual HIV Status in Rural Malawi. Paper presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, MI. May 2nd.
Torrone E, Feldacker C, Triplette M, Smith J, Leone P. 2008. Reaching the target: An innovative HIV testing model. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. San Diego, CA, Oct 27th.
Feldacker, C. 2008. “Using improved monitoring and evaluation to scale up population-health-environment programs.” Workshop presented at the “Scaling up: 3rd Conference on Population, Health, and Environment in the Philippines,” Tagaytay, Philippines, March 5th.
Feldacker, C. 2007. “Monitoring and Evaluation 101: Improving population-health-environment programs in the field.” Workshop presented at the Population, Health, and Environment: Integrated Development for East Africa conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 12th.
Publications
Emch M, Feldacker C, Yunus M, Streatfield PK, DinhThiem V, Canh DG, Ali M. 2008. Local Environmental Predictors of Cholera in Bangladesh and Vietnam. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 78(5):823-832.
Emch, M, Feldacker, C, Islam, MS, and Mohammed Ali. 2008. Seasonality of cholera from 1974 to 2005: a review of global patterns. International Journal of Health Geographics, June 20; 7:31.
Jason Bremner, Richard Bilsborrow, Caryl Feldacker, and Flora Lu Holt. 2008. “Fertility beyond the frontier: indigenous women, fertility, and reproductive practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon” Population and Environment. Submitted: January, 2008.
Feldacker, Caryl. 2004. “Serving the Stewards: Improving Reproductive Health and Protecting the Amazonian Rainforest.” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Population, Environmental Change, and Security News, Issue 9, pp. 10-12.
Thandi Xigashe, Caryl Feldacker, et al. 2002. “Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in South Africa: Rapid Systems Analysis and Improvement Strategies.” Bethesda, MD. Published for USAID by the Quality Assurance Project, University Research Co., LLC.
Ingrid Thame, Caryl Feldacker, et al. 2002. “Treatment, Care and Support Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Jamaica: Rapid Systems Analysis and Improvement Strategies.” Bethesda, MD. Published for USAID by the Quality Assurance Project, University Research Co., LLC.
