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Episode Synopsis
Dr. Erin Stuckey – The Health Specialist: Disease Eradication, Health Advocate and a Researcher
Dr. Erin Stuckey is an epidemiologist and Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focusing on polio eradication. They contribute to the last mile of Polio eradication by working with government and NGO partners to increase coverage of routine immunization and other essential health services in areas at high risk for polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Motivated to address health inequity worldwide, Erin is a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow and has over fifteen years of experience in the global health field. Prior to joining the Polio team, Erin focused on malaria at the Gates foundation where they created and managed strategy, scientific content, and partner relationships for a portfolio in genetic epidemiology, geospatial epidemiology, and applied mathematical modeling, as well as malaria elimination programs in the Latin America region. Before joining the foundation in 2014 Erin conducted doctoral research at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland applying mathematical modeling to support decision-making for operations in malaria control and elimination in Kenya and Zambia.
Prior to moving into academia, Erin worked in various roles with Population Services International (PSI) including several years in Juba, South Sudan where they led a department implementing a multi-donor portfolio of nation-wide HIV/AIDS social marketing programs, and later established a department for research, M&E, and communications for programs in HIV/AIDS, safe water, and malaria. Erin holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, a Postgraduate Program Certificate in Public Health from the Swiss School of Public Health, an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a BA in Comparative Literature and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.
Erin also holds a 200-hour yoga teacher training certification and is honored to serves on the non-profit Board of Directors of Yoga Behind Bars.
Dr. Erin Stuckey is an epidemiologist and Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focusing on polio eradication. They contribute to the last mile of Polio eradication by working with government and NGO partners to increase coverage of routine immunization and other essential health services in areas at high risk for polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Motivated to address health inequity worldwide, Erin is a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow and has over fifteen years of experience in the global health field. Prior to joining the Polio team, Erin focused on malaria at the Gates foundation where they created and managed strategy, scientific content, and partner relationships for a portfolio in genetic epidemiology, geospatial epidemiology, and applied mathematical modeling, as well as malaria elimination programs in the Latin America region. Before joining the foundation in 2014 Erin conducted doctoral research at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland applying mathematical modeling to support decision-making for operations in malaria control and elimination in Kenya and Zambia.
Prior to moving into academia, Erin worked in various roles with Population Services International (PSI) including several years in Juba, South Sudan where they led a department implementing a multi-donor portfolio of nation-wide HIV/AIDS social marketing programs, and later established a department for research, M&E, and communications for programs in HIV/AIDS, safe water, and malaria. Erin holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, a Postgraduate Program Certificate in Public Health from the Swiss School of Public Health, an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a BA in Comparative Literature and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.
Erin also holds a 200-hour yoga teacher training certification and is honored to serves on the non-profit Board of Directors of Yoga Behind Bars.
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