Andrea

L.

Wirtz

, PhD, MHS

Dr. Wirtz is a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and affiliated with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research focuses on community-partnered international and domestic epidemiologic research and interventions to address the intersections between human rights and HIV and other health outcomes, with particular attention to populations that have been excluded from or invisible within research or otherwise traditionally underserved in health services. Internationally, she most recently served as joint Principal Investigator of a community-academic-policy collaboration to estimate HIV prevalence and other health indicators among Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Colombia. In the U.S. she is the joint Principal Investigator of a nationwide cohort exclusively focused on the unique health and HIV risks in transgender women. She is interested in how epidemiologic methods can be leveraged in complex situations and has contributed epidemiologic expertise to a number of humanitarian interventions and human rights investigations in diverse settings. At the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Dr. Wirtz instructs graduate-level courses on health survey research methods and the use of epidemiologic methods to investigate human rights violations.