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Associate Profile Andrew Karlyn is an associate with the Population Council's HIV and AIDS program in Nigeria. Prior to joining the Council, Karlyn was a senior behavioral scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Botswana; a behavior change communications and research consultant in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, and Romania; and a technical advisor for monitoring, evaluation, and research for Population Services International in Mozambique.Karlyn has extensive experience in the implementation of qualitative and quantitative social science research on topics of sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV and AIDS, which includes data collection, analysis, and dissemination of research results. He has 15 years' experience with clinical trials, cross-sectional population-based surveys, quasi-experimental designs, panel surveys, client/consumer intercept surveys, rapid ethnography, participatory methods (RRA/PRAs), and focus groups. In sub-Saharan Africa, Karlyn has provided long-term technical assistance for research, program design, monitoring and evaluation systems, and evaluations for a variety of national and international clients, including community-based organizations, host governments, international donors, national and international NGOs, and UN agencies (12 years of experience). He has worked for ten years in program implementation of national and regional behavior-change communications and social marketing campaigns for the prevention of sexual and vertical transmission of HIV. Karlyn has held direct supervisory responsibility for managing the program development cycle, including project design, proposal development, budgeting, material development and placement, logistics, and monitoring and evaluation. He has ten years of supervisory experience that includes program initiation and start-up. Karlyn received his B.A. in international relations and his M.Sc. in biomedical anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. in public health and demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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