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Macarena Garcia, DrPH, MPS, MIS

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Epidemiology

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Macarena Garcia, DrPH, MPS, MIS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology of the UNMC College of Public Health. She also is a senior health scientist in the Division for Global HIV & TB at the Global Health Center of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also served as a senior technical adviser for for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Management Sciences for Health, and Chemonics International.

Dr. Garcia was a country program director for Lesotho on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at the U.S. Agency for International Development, for which she also had served as a deputy country coordinator for Vietnam, and a program manager for Nigeria through Catholic Relief Services.

Education

2023, MPS, Maryland Institute College of Arts
2013, DrPH, Flinders University, South Australia
2004, MIS, University of Sydney, New South Wales
2000, BA, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Research Interests

Global Health
Humanitarian Health
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Health Equity
Rural Health

Selected Publications

Kiva A. Fisher, Sadhna V. Patel, Neha Mehta, et al. (2022). Lessons Learned from Programmatic Gains in HIV Service Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic — 41 PEPFAR-Supported Countries, 2020, MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 71:447–452.
Kelly M. Fletcher, Julie Espey, Marissa K. Grossman, et al. (2021). Social vulnerability and county stay-at-home behavior during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, United States, April 7–April 20, 2020. Annals of Epidemiology, Volume 64, 2021.
Moreland, A., Herlihy, C., Tynan, MA., et al. (2020). Timing of State and Territorial COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders and Changes in Population Movement — United States, MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 69:1198–1203.
Bull-Otterson, L.., Gray EB., Budnitz DS., et al. (2020). Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine Prescribing Patterns by Provider Specialty Following Initial Reports of Potential Benefit for COVID-19 Treatment — United States, MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 69:1210–1215.