Gail E. Kennedy, MPH
Gail Kennedy is Co-Director of UCSF's international HIV/AIDS projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 1985 Ms. Kennedy received her BA in Political Science from the California Polytechnic State University, and then spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone. On returning, Ms. Kennedy earned her MPH from Columbia University, graduating in 1993. She has been with UCSF since 1995. In addition to her work on UCSF's CDC projects, which she has co-directed since 2004, she has been Managing Editor of the Cochrane Review Group on HIV/AIDS since its inception in 1997. Ms. Kennedy has applied evidence-based public health principles and Cochrane methodologies to much of her non-Cochrane work, such as a series of systematic reviews for California’s Department of Health Services on various aspects of HIV prevention in ethnic minorities; and a complete “Evidence Assessment” of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care interventions, done at the request of the Milbank Memorial Foundation for the use of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. State Department. In 2006, Ms. Kennedy led a team creating a “Prevention for Positives” briefing book of evidence-based guidelines for preventing illness and HIV transmission for people with HIV/AIDS, the recommendations of which were subsequently adopted by the World Health Organization. With colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, she led a team conducting a systematic review to identify articles in the peer-reviewed literature that assessed the efficacy of programs that link SRH services and HIV prevention. Among other current activities, Ms. Kennedy has recently designed and led workshops in data interpretation and use for public health officials in Botswana and eastern European counties to assist them in answering key public health questions relevant to HIV/AIDS program improvement and policy development.
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