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Mary C. Smith-Fawzi, C. Smith Fawzi, Sc.D.

Mary C. Smith Fawzi, ScD, is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Dr. Smith Fawzi is an epidemiologist trained at the Harvard School of Public Health with direct experience running NIH-funded research and training projects. She has international experience in study design and/or implementation in Tanzania, Iraq, Thailand, Peru, Haiti, and Kazakhstan. She has trained healthcare professionals in study design, statistical analysis, and proposal development at technical workshops funded by the Tropical Disease Research branch of the World Health Organization.

She has served as the primary instructor for a course titled “Epidemiologic and biostatistical Methods for Global Health” offered at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School as part of the Global Health Delivery Intensive program. She also co-teaches courses in quantitative methods and mixed methods research through the MMSc-GHD program at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Fawzi has served as the co-PI of a Fogarty International Center-funded training grant in rural Haiti entitled “Scale-up of Community-based HIV Prevention and Care,” a research training program linked with the expansion of HIV services through support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She has also served as the co-PI of an NIH-funded research study entitled “Psychosocial intervention in HIV-affected children in Haiti” and has co-authored a number of program and policy-related manuscripts for the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS.

HIV-free survival and morbidity among formula-fed infants in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV program in rural Haiti.
Authors: Authors: Ivers LC, Appleton SC, Wang B, Jerome JG, Cullen KA, Smith Fawzi MC.
AIDS Res Ther
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Structural violence: a barrier to achieving the millennium development goals for women.
Authors: Authors: Mukherjee JS, Barry DJ, Satti H, Raymonville M, Marsh S, Smith-Fawzi MK.
J Womens Health (Larchmt)
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Improving prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV care and related services in eastern Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Lim Y, Kim JY, Rich M, Stulac S, Niyonzima JB, Smith Fawzi MC, Gahire R, Mukaminega M, Getchell M, Peterson CW, Farmer PE, Binagwaho A.
PLoS Med
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Psychosocial functioning among HIV-affected youth and their caregivers in Haiti: implications for family-focused service provision in high HIV burden settings.
Authors: Authors: Smith Fawzi MC, Eustache E, Oswald C, Surkan P, Louis E, Scanlan F, Wong R, Li M, Mukherjee J.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
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Overseas processing of dried blood spots for timely diagnosis of HIV in Haitian infants.
Authors: Authors: Ivers LC, Smith Fawzi MC, Mann J, Jerome JG, Raymonville M, Mukherjee JS.
Rev Panam Salud Publica
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Detecting depressive disorder with the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 in Tanzania.
Authors: Authors: Lee B, Kaaya SF, Mbwambo JK, Smith-Fawzi MC, Leshabari MT.
Int J Soc Psychiatry
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Detecting depressive disorder with a 19-item local instrument in Tanzania.
Authors: Authors: Kaaya SF, Lee B, Mbwambo JK, Smith-Fawzi MC, Leshabari MT.
Int J Soc Psychiatry
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Multivitamin supplementation in HIV-positive pregnant women: impact on depression and quality of life in a resource-poor setting.
Authors: Authors: Smith Fawzi MC, Kaaya SF, Mbwambo J, Msamanga GI, Antelman G, Wei R, Hunter DJ, Fawzi WW.
HIV Med
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Late presentation for HIV care in central Haiti: factors limiting access to care.
Authors: Authors: Louis C, Ivers LC, Smith Fawzi MC, Freedberg KA, Castro A.
AIDS Care
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Latent tuberculosis infection: risks to health care students at a hospital in Lima, Peru.
Authors: Authors: Hohmuth BA, Yamanija JC, Dayal AS, Nardell E, Salazar JJ, Smith Fawzi MC.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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