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Regional Associate Profile Kate Wilson is a regional associate with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program in Mexico City. She conducts qualitative and qualitative research in the areas of abortion public opinion in Mexico and HIV/AIDS. She recently spearheaded the development of an NIH proposal (R03) that will focus on the intersection of migration and HIV/AIDS among male migrants in the United States. She also represents the Council in the Mexico Pro-Choice Alliance, a network of five women’s rights organizations. Prior to joining the Council in 2006, Wilson was a public health prevention specialist for three years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During two years of that assignment, she worked at the local level as a program coordinator and researcher on several multi-agency projects with Latino immigrants in Durham, North Carolina, that addressed access to health care and HIV prevention. This included leading a research study to assess the feasibility of providing free HIV rapid testing in Latino neighborhoods as well as a study of the health experiences of women survivors of partner violence. Wilson received her MPH from Yale University in 2003 where she was a dean’s scholarship recipient. Her master’s thesis focused on the health experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Thailand. She received her BA in human biology from Brown University in 1999.
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