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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
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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.

Image-based surgical site infection algorithms to support home-based post-cesarean monitoring: Lessons from Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Alayande BT, Prasad S, Abimpaye M, Bakorimana L, Niyigena A, Nkurunziza J, Cubaka VK, Kateera F, Fletcher R, Hedt-Gauthier B.
PLOS Glob Public Health
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Long travel times from health center to hospital reduce caesarean section access: a study from Kirehe District, Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Miller H, Rudolfson N, Nkurunziza T, Cherian T, Kayitesi D, Mazimpaka C, Kateera F, Riviello R, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Pan Afr Med J
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Oxygen saturation targets for adults with acute hypoxemia in low and lower-middle income countries: a scoping review with analysis of contextual factors.
Authors: Authors: Herbst A, Goel S, Beane A, Brotherton BJ, Dula D, Ely EW, Gordon SB, Haniffa R, Hedt-Gauthier B, Limbani F, Lipnick MS, Lyon S, Njoki C, Oduor P, Otieno G, Pisani L, Rylance J, Shrime MG, Uwamahoro DL, Vanderburg S, Waweru-Siika W, Twagirumugabe T, Riviello E.
Front Med (Lausanne)
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Increasing Use Of Interferon Gamma Release Assays Among Children =2 Years of Age in a Setting With Low Tuberculosis Prevalence.
Authors: Authors: Campbell JI, Tabatneck M, Sun M, He W, Musinguzi N, Hedt-Gauthier B, Lamb GS, Goldmann D, Sabharwal V, Sandora TJ, Haberer JE.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
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Adapting Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to accommodate imperfect diagnostic tests: application to COVID-19 serosurveillance in Haiti.
Authors: Authors: Fulcher IR, Clisbee M, Lambert W, Leandre FR, Hedt-Gauthier B.
BMC Public Health
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Feasibility and effectiveness of self-monitoring of blood glucose among insulin-dependent patients with type 2 diabetes: open randomized control trial in three rural districts in Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Ng'ang'a L, Ngoga G, Dusabeyezu S, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Harerimana E, Niyonsenga SP, Bavuma CM, Bukhman G, Adler AJ, Kateera F, Park PH.
BMC Endocr Disord
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Telemedicine for Surgical Site Infection Diagnosis in Rural Rwanda: Concordance and Accuracy of Image Reviews.
Authors: Authors: Hedt-Gauthier B, Miranda E, Nkurunziza T, Hughes O, Boatin AA, Gaju E, Matousek A, Cherian T, Riviello R, Kateera F.
World J Surg
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Identifying Programmatic Factors that Increase Likelihood of Health Facility Delivery: Results from a Community Health Worker Program in Zanzibar.
Authors: Authors: Hentschel E, Russell AL, Said S, Tibaijuka J, Hedt-Gauthier B, Fulcher IR.
Matern Child Health J
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STI prevalence, incidence, and partner notification among women in a periconception HIV prevention program in Uganda.
Authors: Authors: Chitneni P, Muyindike W, Bwana MB, Owembabazi M, O'Neil K, Kalyebara PK, Hedt-Gauthier B, Bangsberg DR, Marrazzo JM, Kaida A, Haberer JE, Matthews LT.
Int J STD AIDS
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Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa.
Authors: Authors: Baobeid A, Faghani-Hamadani T, Sauer S, Boum Y, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Neufeld N, Odhiambo J, Volmink J, Shuchman M, Di Ruggiero E, Condo JU.
BMJ Glob Health
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