WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2005-The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) is pleased to announce the selection of Donna G. Anderson, PhD, MPH, as program director of its newly established HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program in support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Dr. Anderson was chosen to head the Twinning Center Program following an extensive nationwide search.
Since 1999, Anderson served as chief of the Division of STD Prevention, National Center of HIV, STD, and TB Prevention's Training and Health Communication Branch at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Anderson has also been an associate professor affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center's Department of Psychiatry since 1997. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado; an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley; and a bachelor's degree in health sciences from San Jose State University.
During her tenure at CDC, Dr. Anderson helped design and implement a collaborative alliance between three separate federally-funded national reproductive health training networks, thereby building a trans-agency collaboration that facilitated the sharing of faculty and resources, as well as integrated STD and HIV information into training programs. Anderson also has experience with international twinning partnerships, including an HIV-related program in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a clinical assessment and training project in Rajasthan, India.
Noting that Anderson is a well-known and established public health expert who brings almost four decades of broad-based experience in areas such as disease prevention, health promotion, HIV/AIDS, behavioral health, and project management, AIHA Executive Director James P. Smith says, "AIHA is extremely fortunate to have Dr. Anderson at the helm of our new HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program. She has been developing and managing programs that rely on partnerships to provide HIV and STI education and training to healthcare professionals for more than 15 years and her wealth of knowledge uniquely qualifies her to provide the strong leadership and commitment to excellence needed as this exciting new program moves into the implementation stage in early 2005."
Funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program will mobilize and coordinate the resources of US healthcare providers-as well as tap into the HIV/AIDS-related expertise that already exists in the Emergency Plan's 15 focus countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean-to effectively reduce HIV infection rates and provide care to those infected with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS. To this end, AIHA-along with the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) and the Futures Group-will establish as many as 160 capacity-building twinning partnerships linking US or regional medical institutions, practitioners, and community- and faith-based organizations working in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment with their counterparts in the target countries.
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