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Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD

Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine
Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
617-432-7260

Dr. Hedt-Gauthier received a BS with distinction in mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1999. Immediately following her undergraduate training, she served three years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia, where she was introduced to the needs and challenges of global public health and the role of research in addressing these gaps. In 2003, she began a PhD program in biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. During this training, Dr. Hedt-Gauthier took a leave of absence to complete a fellowship in strategic information at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Malawi. She received her PhD in 2008 and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the same department in 2010.

Hedt-Gauthier leads NIH-funded research exploring the feasibility and impact of mobile health (mHealth) tools for community health worker-led postoperative follow-up after cesarean delivery in rural Rwanda. She also leads statistical methods development and application, with expertise in complex survey sampling, surveillance, and methods for program monitoring and evaluation.

Maternal predictors of neonatal outcomes after emergency cesarean section: a retrospective study in three rural district hospitals in Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Nyirahabimana N, Ufashingabire CM, Lin Y, Hedt-Gauthier B, Riviello R, Odhiambo J, Mubiligi J, Macharia M, Rulisa S, Uwicyeza I, Ngamije P, Nkikabahizi F, Nkurunziza T.
Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol
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A Novel Combined Mother-Infant Clinic to Optimize Post-Partum Maternal Retention, Service Utilization, and Linkage to Services in HIV Care in Rural Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Guillaine N, Mwizerwa W, Odhiambo J, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Hirschhorn LR, Mugwaneza P, Umugisha JP, Cyamatare FR, Mutaganzwa C, Gupta N.
Int J MCH AIDS
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Adapting operational research training to the Rwandan context: the Intermediate Operational Research Training programme.
Authors: Authors: Odhiambo J, Amoroso CL, Barebwanuwe P, Warugaba C, Hedt-Gauthier BL.
Glob Health Action
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Health worker attrition at a rural district hospital in Rwanda: a need for improved placement and retention strategies.
Authors: Authors: Odhiambo J, Rwabukwisi FC, Rusangwa C, Rusanganwa V, Hirschhorn LR, Nahimana E, Ngamije P, Hedt-Gauthier BL.
Pan Afr Med J
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Referral patterns and predictors of referral delays for patients with traumatic injuries in rural Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Nkurunziza T, Toma G, Odhiambo J, Maine R, Riviello R, Gupta N, Habiyakare C, Mpunga T, Bonane A, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Surgery
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HIV surveillance in Rwanda: readiness assessment to transition from antenatal care-based to prevention of mother-to-child transmission program-based HIV surveillance.
Authors: Authors: Balisanga H, Mutagoma M, Remera E, Kayitesi C, Kayirangwa E, Dee J, Malamba S, Boer KR, Hedt-Gauthier B, Umugwaneza P, Nsanzimana S.
Int J Infect Dis
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Five-year Outcomes Among Children Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in a Community-based Accompaniment Program in Rural Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Cyamatare Rwabukwisi F, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Ribakare M, Mukamana J, Gatesi Y, Stulac S, Drobac P, Amoroso CL, Gupta N.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
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Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Thomson DR, Semakula M, Hirschhorn LR, Murray M, Ndahindwa V, Manzi A, Mukabutera A, Karema C, Condo J, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Health Res Policy Syst
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Non-Obstetric Surgical Care at Three Rural District Hospitals in Rwanda: More Human Capacity and Surgical Equipment May Increase Operative Care.
Authors: Authors: Muhirwa E, Habiyakare C, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Odhiambo J, Maine R, Gupta N, Toma G, Nkurunziza T, Mpunga T, Mukankusi J, Riviello R.
World J Surg
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Rainfall variation and child health: effect of rainfall on diarrhea among under 5 children in Rwanda, 2010.
Authors: Authors: Mukabutera A, Thomson D, Murray M, Basinga P, Nyirazinyoye L, Atwood S, Savage KP, Ngirimana A, Hedt-Gauthier BL.
BMC Public Health
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