Denis Nash

Denis Nash, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of ICAP’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research (MER) Unit. Dr. Nash received his MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and his PhD in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Mount Sinai Medical School in the Department of Community Medicine.

Prior to joining ICAP, Dr. Nash worked at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and at the New York Academy of Medicine. His work involved the implementation of named HIV reporting in New York City. He was also involved in studies of the emergence and sequella of the emergence of West Nile virus in the US.

Under the direction of Dr. Nash, the ICAP MER Unit is responsible for all monitoring and evaluation activities at ICAP, and for conducting and coordinating a number of operation research activities. The MER Unit guides and supports the development of effective monitoring and evaluation systems for timely and accurate reporting of required national and PEPFAR indicators, as well as for evaluating and improving the efficiency and quality of ICAP-supported HIV prevention, care and treatment programs. MER staff actively participate in and link ICAP-supported sites to large multi-center research collaborations (IeDEA and ART-LINC) which aim at generating information through examination of multi-program data in order to guide scale-up of HIV services in resource-limited settings. The Unit consists of 10 full-time New York-based and regionally-based staff members with training in demography, epidemiology, statistics, cost-effectiveness, reproductive health, and database development and management.