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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.

Toward utilization of data for program management and evaluation: quality assessment of five years of health management information system data in Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Nisingizwe MP, Iyer HS, Gashayija M, Hirschhorn LR, Amoroso C, Wilson R, Rubyutsa E, Gaju E, Basinga P, Muhire A, Binagwaho A, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Glob Health Action
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Baseline assessment of adult and adolescent primary care delivery in Rwanda: an opportunity for quality improvement.
Authors: Authors: Vasan A, Anatole M, Mezzacappa C, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Hirschhorn LR, Nkikabahizi F, Hagenimana M, Ndayisaba A, Cyamatare FR, Nzeyimana B, Drobac P, Gupta N.
BMC Health Serv Res
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A comparison of marginal and conditional models for capture-recapture data with application to human rights violations data.
Authors: Authors: Mitchell S, Ozonoff A, Zaslavsky AM, Hedt-Gauthier B, Lum K, Coull BA.
Biometrics
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The effect of clustering on lot quality assurance sampling: a probabilistic model to calculate sample sizes for quality assessments.
Authors: Authors: Hedt-Gauthier BL, Mitsunaga T, Hund L, Olives C, Pagano M.
Emerg Themes Epidemiol
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Using electronic technology to improve clinical care - results from a before-after cluster trial to evaluate assessment and classification of sick children according to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocol in Tanzania.
Authors: Authors: Mitchell M, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Msellemu D, Nkaka M, Lesh N.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
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Utilizing community health worker data for program management and evaluation: systems for data quality assessments and baseline results from Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Mitsunaga T, Hedt-Gauthier B, Ngizwenayo E, Farmer DB, Karamaga A, Drobac P, Basinga P, Hirschhorn L, Ngabo F, Mugeni C.
Soc Sci Med
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Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi.
Authors: Authors: Admon AJ, Bazile J, Makungwa H, Chingoli MA, Hirschhorn LR, Peckarsky M, Rigodon J, Herce M, Chingoli F, Malani PN, Hedt-Gauthier BL.
Public Health Action
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Linking surveillance with action against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Cohen T, Manjourides J, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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Improving data quality and supervision of antiretroviral therapy sites in Malawi: an application of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling.
Authors: Authors: Hedt-Gauthier BL, Tenthani L, Mitchell S, Chimbwandira FM, Makombe S, Chirwa Z, Schouten EJ, Pagano M, Jahn A.
BMC Health Serv Res
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A retrospective survey of HIV drug resistance among patients 1 year after initiation of antiretroviral therapy at 4 clinics in Malawi.
Authors: Authors: Wadonda-Kabondo N, Hedt BL, van Oosterhout JJ, Moyo K, Limbambala E, Bello G, Chilima B, Schouten E, Harries A, Massaquoi M, Porter C, Weigel R, Hosseinipour M, Aberle-Grasse J, Jordan MR, Kabuluzi S, Bennett DE.
Clin Infect Dis
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