Caryl Feldacker

Ph.D.  Health Behavior/Health Education cfeldacker@gmail.com Caryl in Sapa, Vietnam

Caryl is currently working with Lighthouse-an HIV and AIDS clinic based in Lilongwe, Malawi 

You can see photos from her previous travels at http://picasaweb.google.com/cfeldacker

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

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. link to article

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. link to article

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. link to article

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. link to article

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.

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 2^nd.

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 27^th.

Feldacker, C. 2008. “Using improved monitoring and evaluation to scale up population-health-environment programs.” Workshop presented at the “Scaling up: 3^rd Conference on Population, Health, and Environment in the Philippines,” Tagaytay, Philippines, March 5^th.

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 12^th.