Susan Zimicki

Susan Zimicki recently completed her assignment as Director of AED's CHANGE Project, which focuses on identifying, developing and evaluating tools and strategies for achieving behavior change relevant to child health, maternal health, infectious disease, and HIV/AIDS. She provides management oversight, technical direction, guidance and research/evaluation support to DC- and field-based staff working on behavior change projects. Dr. Zimicki has more than twenty years experience in applied research on public health interventions in Africa and Asia, including stints as a visiting researcher at ORSTOM in Senegal and at the Medical Research Council field station in the Gambia, where she designed and fielded a national survey on the socio-behavioral aspects of insecticide treatment of mosquito nets. She has been involved with ITNs since the early 90's, first serving on the WHO Task Force that funded the early net trials and then chairing the Task Force on Operational Research on Bednets from 1996-1999; she is currently a member of the Roll Back Malaria Communications Working Group.

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