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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.

Machine learning for maternal health: Predicting delivery location in a community health worker program in Zanzibar.
Authors: Authors: Fredriksson A, Fulcher IR, Russell AL, Li T, Tsai YT, Seif SS, Mpembeni RN, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Front Digit Health
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Disruptions in maternal health service use during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: experiences from 37 health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Aranda Z, Binde T, Tashman K, Tadikonda A, Mawindo B, Maweu D, Boley EJ, Mphande I, Dumbuya I, Montaño M, Clisbee M, Mvula MG, Ndayizigiye M, Casella Jean-Baptiste M, Varney PF, Anyango S, Grépin KA, Law MR, Mugunga JC, Hedt-Gauthier B, Fulcher IR.
BMJ Glob Health
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Rediscovering life after being diagnosed with HIV: A qualitative analysis of lived experiences of youth living with HIV in rural Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Uwamariya J, Nshunguyabahizi M, Nshimyumuremyi JN, Mukesharurema G, Ndayishimiye E, Kamali I, Ndahimana JD, Hedt-Gauthier B, Cubaka VK, Barnhart DA.
Front Reprod Health
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How to estimate health service coverage in 58 districts of Benin with no survey data: Using hybrid estimation to fill the gaps.
Authors: Authors: Ocampo A, Valadez JJ, Hedt-Gauthier B, Pagano M.
PLOS Glob Public Health
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Receipt of a combined economic and peer support intervention and clinical outcomes among HIV-positive youth in rural Rwanda: A retrospective cohort.
Authors: Authors: Barnhart DA, Uwamariya J, Nshimyumuremyi JN, Mukesharurema G, Anderson T, Ndahimana JD, Cubaka VK, Hedt-Gauthier B.
PLOS Glob Public Health
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The Use of Mobile Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning for Prediction of Surgical Site Infection.
Authors: Authors: Fletcher RR, Schneider G, Bikorimana L, Rukundo G, Niyigena A, Miranda E, Riviello R, Kateera F, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
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Use of Convolutional Neural Nets and Transfer Learning for Prediction of Surgical Site Infection from Color Images.
Authors: Authors: Fletcher RR, Schneider G, Hedt-Gauthier B, Nkurunziza T, Alayande B, Riviello R, Kateera F.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
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Stillbirth rate by maternal HIV serostatus and antiretroviral use in pregnancy in South Africa: An audit.
Authors: Authors: Maswime S, Pule C, Bebell LM, Hedt-Gauthier B, Chandiwana N, Haberer JE, Pattinson R.
S Afr Med J
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Syndromic surveillance using monthly aggregate health systems information data: methods with application to COVID-19 in Liberia.
Authors: Authors: Fulcher IR, Boley EJ, Gopaluni A, Varney PF, Barnhart DA, Kulikowski N, Mugunga JC, Murray M, Law MR, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Int J Epidemiol
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Optimal allocation in stratified cluster-based outcome-dependent sampling designs.
Authors: Authors: Sauer S, Hedt-Gauthier B, Haneuse S.
Stat Med
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