Rachel Wittenauer, Mph, Phd Email & Phone Number

France

Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Postdoctoral Research Scientist in global health economics on the Public Health Decision Modelling Team of the Early Detection, Prevention and Infections Branch. Contribute to epidemiologic and mathematical modeling studies to assess the population-level health and economic impacts of cervical cancer prevention programs, such as HPV vaccination and early screening, in high-priority countries.

Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Monisha Sharma in the Department of Global Health. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate the health and economic impacts of new programs and new pharmaceutical products for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe using agent-based infectious disease models.

Graduate Research Assistant, USAID Medicines, Technologies and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) ProgramControlling the global hazard of antimicrobial resistance and supporting the Global Health Security Agenda rely on robust pharmaceutical systems worldwide. Funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and led by MSH, the goal of the five-year USAID MTaPS program is to help low- and middle-income countries strengthen their pharmaceutical systems to ensure sustainable access to and appropriate use of safe, effective, quality-assured, and affordable essential medicines and pharmaceutical services.Supported the Tanzania Ministry of Health in applying two WHO protocols to design and analyze data from two studies gathering data on antimicrobial use at the national and hospital levels. Supported the Uganda Ministry of Health in applying the same protocols for an additional analysis across 13 hospitals.

Research Assistant supporting the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Disaster Research Response (DR2) program.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Teaching assistant for two courses:GH345 Global Health Economics (Instructor: Dr. Carol Levin)PHI513 Analytic Skills for Public Health II (Instructors: Dr. Arianna Means, Dr. Stephanie Farquhar)

Seattle, Washington, United States

Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) team, supporting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine modeling

The Vivaccess malaria project supports country and regional malaria control and elimination efforts through the adoption of new diagnostics and drugs in Asia, Africa, and South America.- Use R Studio and logistic regression models to analyze price and quality data for malaria rapid diagnostic tests spanning ten years and 770 million products from The Global Fund and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) to understand the relationship between procurement costs and product quality- Conduct market landscape assessments for Papua New Guinea and Indonesia across health financing, healthcare delivery, supply chain, epidemiology, and regulatory processes to understand market opportunities and barriers to expanding access to medicines and diagnostics which target relapsing P. vivax malaria

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Research Assistant for the 2018-2019 Washington HIV/STI Prevention Project. The WHSPP is an annual survey to monitor demand, uptake, and unmet need for HIV prevention interventions statewide and is funded by the Washington State Department of Health.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Promoted from Analyst to Consultant to Senior Consultant, with increasing technical and management responsibilities on a variety of client engagements including:• National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Zika Vaccine Strategy• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC): Antibiotic Resistance Unit (ARX) Partnership Strategy for the 2018 UN General Assembly meeting• Defense Health Agency (DHA): Public Health Branch (PHB) Annual Periodic Health Assessment Surveillance Dashboard• US Agency for International Development (USAID): Bureau for Africa Staff Leadership Development Pilot

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Health Economics And Outcomes Research

PhD in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) from the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute.

Certificate, International Humanitarian Response

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Public Health

Thesis: Mixed-methods evaluation of an electronic immunization registry in Siaya, Kenya Recipient of the Thomas Francis, Jr. fieldwork.

Ba, Public Health