Program Director (PCM)

Program Director (PCM)

Hanaa Hamdi

Hanaa Hamdi, B.S., Community Health Education, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY); joint doctoral student in Urban Health and Epidemiology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ); is Project Director for HIV Prevention Case Management Initiative─Program Evaluation (PCM), responsible for scientific and administrative oversight in coordination with the project investigators. She provides capacity-building and technical assistance to the participating Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), and oversees data collection and analysis, development of new measures and scales, and development and dissemination of reports to funders. Prior to joining the Center in 2003, Ms. Hamdi was Senior Clinical Coordinator for the Medical Surgical Team at the Gillette Center for Women’s Cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she contributed to breast cancer studies. She was also a Senior Clinical Coordinator for HIV/HCV phase II and III clinical trial studies at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, responsible for identifying and recruiting patients into studies, following and managing patient treatment and medical care, writing protocols for Columbia's IRB, and drafting and negotiating budget contracts with study sponsors. Her research interests are social epidemiology; social determinants of health disparities; maternal and child health; clinical research designs and methodology; spatial analysis and health mapping; and evidence-based practice and outcomes. A native of Eritrea, East Africa, Ms. Hamdi has been an active participant in numerous research and volunteer projects directly related to women’s health both abroad and in the United States, including delivering maternal, prenatal care and reproductive health education to young mothers. In addition, she has participated in providing case management in tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment, both in medical clinical settings that treat women with birth-related fistula complications and in mobile van outreach in rural settings. She is currently involved in securing funding for a women’s clinic in rural Eritrea for impoverished women and young girls to address secondary infections following female genital cutting (FGC). During an internship at the Center for Immigrant Health (CIH) at NYU Medical Center, Ms. Hamdi developed a TB curriculum, assisted in developing educational brochures, and coordinated case management for a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene-funded TB intervention study among new immigrants at the Bellevue Hospital Survivors of Torture Clinic. She remains a consultant in case management at CIH to address issues among torture survivors related to HIV/AIDS, TB, and hepatitis. Ms. Hamdi is fluent in Amharic, Arabic, Tigrinya, and possesses a working knowledge of Spanish; she uses her language skills in research settings as well as to translate medical information in clinical settings for non-English speaking patients.

Presentations:

Hamdi, H. (2005, April). Poster presentation. African-American women's vital role in narrowing the ethnic/racial disparity of prostate cancer. Harvard School of Public Health: Health Disparity Symposium. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Godfrey, C., Krauss, B., & Hamdi, H. (2004, October). Poster presentation. Meeting the changing technical assistance needs of HIV PCM programs in New York City. The United States Conference on AIDS, Philadelphia, PA.