Andrea Swartzendruber

Andrea began working at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in 1997 in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention where she worked both on domestic and international projects to prevent and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS. Domestically, she has worked to design and evaluate behavioral interventions to reduce risk behaviors and prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users. Internationally, her focus has been children and families in areas heavily affected by HIV/AIDS. In particular, she has conducted research and contributed to many projects to address the needs of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. She currently works in the Global AIDS Program at CDC to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in resource-poor countries all over the world, but particularly in Africa. Andrea received her masters degree in international health and epidemiology from Emory University.