Kathy Atwood, M.S.,
Sc.D. — Evaluator
Dr. Katharine Atwood serves CSAP's Southeast CAPT as Evaluator and is
responsible for the day to day evaluation activities. She is an Associate
Research Scientist at PIRE-Louisville. Before coming to PIRE in the Fall
of 2006, she had been a Research Assistant Professor at the College of
Public Health at the University of Kentucky where her work had been primarily
in the area of HIV prevention. She has been co-investigator of a NIAAA-funded
HIV prevention study targeting male adolescents in detention facilities
in Kentucky and Ohio and among male and female adolescents in alternative
schools in inner-city Chicago. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator
of a peer led HIV prevention intervention targeting inner-city adolescents.
Previously she was the Co-Principal Investigator of several evaluation
projects for the Kentucky Department of Public Health including HIV counseling
and testing programs and HIV prevention and outreach services. Dr. Atwood
received a BA in English from the University of Rochester, a masters (MS)
and doctorate in behavioral sciences (Sc.D) from the Harvard School of
Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer prevention
from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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