Dr. Jarashow brings over fifteen years of experience in international development and public health. Her work has been largely shaped by her early years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nicaragua, working with adolescents and women on reproductive health issues and micro-finance projects with woman’s cooperatives. She has worked for various international NGOs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa integrating health programming (specifically malaria and HIV) and economic development programs. She has worked as a Strategic Information Advisor for CDC Namibia, served as Deputy Country Coordinator for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Namibia, been the Implementation Science Advisor for various country programs at I-TECH, and consulted for the World Health Organization. In 2012, she was awarded a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Exploration Award for developing biodegradable vaccine packaging to reduce the waste burden in developing countries. Currently, she is in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC, working with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Claire received a BS in Cognitive Science from Vanderbilt University, an MPH from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from UCLA.