Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Rabkin has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS for 20 years, focusing on strengthening health systems to improve the delivery of prevention, care and treatment services for underserved populations. At ICAP Columbia, she works to design, implement and evaluate HIV and other health programs in low-resource settings (largely in sub-Saharan Africa), and to build the capacity needed to transition programs to local health Ministries and partners. From 2011-2014, she led PEPFAR's flagship course on health systems strengthening, in partnership with CDC and USAID. Her current research focuses on implementation science, and on ways in which to leverage the successes and lessons of HIV scale-up to strengthen broader health systems, and to enhance programs for HIV, maternal/child health and non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Rabkin also leads work to support the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation's Ebola response, as well as several training and education projects, including a NIH T37 summer training program in global health research, and a five-month course in quality and quality improvement for US government field staff and their health Ministry counterparts in PEPFAR focus countries.