Staff & Leadership

Sheree Schwartz, PhD, MPH

Sheree Schwartz, PhD, MPH - Photo

Biography

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health 

Co-Director, Implementation Science Core, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) 

Co-Director, Hopkins Implementation Science Hub 

Director, Inter-CFAR Implementation Science & HIV Training Fellowship for Early-Stage Investigators 

Sheree is an infectious disease epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She spent 7 years in Vietnam, Mozambique and South Africa working first in public health and HIV/reproductive health programming and then later moving over to the research side, supporting and leading HIV prevention and research studies. Sheree is the Co-Director of the Implementation Science Core at the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research, the Co-Director of the Hopkins Implementation Science Hub and leads the inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship for Early-Stage Investigators. Her work largely focuses on utilizing optimization approaches and implementation science frameworks to improve HIV treatment and prevention services for women and disproportionately affected communities within the United States and globally. She is the Protocol Chair of the multi-site study, “Identifying Optimal Status Neutral Rapid START Implementation Strategies to End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.”, an inaugural protocol for the HIV Implementation Science Network.  

Her expertise involves: 

  • Optimization and adaptive study designs 
  • IS guided formative and evaluative qualitative designs 
  • Implementation outcomes & measurement 
  • Utilization of existing and publicly available data 
  • D&I Training