Paula Braitstein

Affiliated Scientist
centre for health services research
Regenstrief Institute
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Paula Braitstein is an epidemiologist who has been living and working in Eldoret, Kenya, since the beginning of 2007.Currently, Paula serves as the Co-Field Director of Research for AMPATH, and Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for the AMPATH Consortium.

Research Intrest

Her research foci today are concentrated on HIV implementation research in sub-Saharan Africa, and vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents, including orphans, street-involved children and youth, and HIV-infected and affected children

List of Publications
Kendall T, Morris C, Braitstein P (2001) Constrained Choices and Communication: HIV Positive Women Accessing Complementary and Alternative Medicine in British Columbia. Can. Woman Stud 21: 96 – 102.
Braitstein P, Kendall T, Chan K, Wood E, Montaner JSG et al (2001) Mary-Jane and Her Patients: Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of Individuals Using Medical Marijuana and Anti-HIV Medications. AIDS 15:532-533.
Wood E, Braitstein P et al ( 2000) Extent to which low-level use of antiretroviral treatment could curb the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet 355: 2095-2100.