Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Kristen Stafford (Participant)

Dr. Stafford is an infectious disease epidemiologist with 25 years of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of domestic and international HIV care and treatment programs. Internationally, she served for six years as Director of the Outcomes and Evaluation Program at the Institute of Human Virology - University of Maryland School of Medicine for an eight country, 240 clinic, 700,000 patient HIV care and treatment program funded through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Dr. Stafford has designed and implemented multi-country education and training programs for the integration of monitoring and evaluation and continuous quality improvement programs into HIV programs and served as co-lead author for the WHO guide to implementing quality improvement programs in resource-limited settings.Her primary research focuses on the epidemiology of aging in the presence of HIV infection and how age is associated with differences in HIV treatment outcomes in resource limited settings with particular focus on immune system recovery and the development of treatment related toxicity and side effects. She is the Associate Director of the Center for International Health, Education, and Biosecurity at the University of Maryland Baltimore.