Erin Graves

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About the Presenter:

Ms. Graves serves as a Senior Program Manager for the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and works closely to support the Mozambique-based organization Friends in Global Health. In this role she collaborates with VUMC and FGH researchers and program implementers, as well as VIGH staff and faculty, to provide technical support in the management of programs aimed at bridging clinical and community-based interventions for HIV care and prevention in rural Mozambique. She has several years of experience working as a RN in clinical care and community/public health. Her work has focused on maternal and child health, family planning, HIV prevention and care, gender-based violence, patient advocacy and self-efficacy, and coordination of patient care within multidisciplinary teams, with special interest in low income and vulnerable populations.  From 2005 to 2007 Ms. Graves served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a Community Health Promoter in Gorongosa, Mozambique. She received a B.S. in Evolutionary Anthropology from Rutgers University, where she also majored in Psychology and Criminal Justice. She also holds a B.S. in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.P.H. with a Global Health emphasis from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.