ABOUT Delivette Castor

Delivette Castor, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (in Medicine and Epidemiology) Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Department of Epidemiology, the Columbia University Medical Center. She is also the Director of the section on Health Equity in Dissemination and Implementation Sciences in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Her research focuses on advancing theories and methods that inform measuring and addressing infectious disease outcomes in marginalized women in low- and middle-income country settings (LMICs) and the United States. Her work has centered on the development and evaluation of interventions to mitigate the risk of Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human papillomavirus (HPV), and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). For 10 years, she was part of the technical leadership at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducting implementation science within the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program and utilizing epidemiologic and economic evidence to inform plans for delivering novel HIV prevention interventions.