Cristiane Costa

Cristiane Costa, MPH, is the senior program officer for Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and the South-to-South Partnership for Comprehensive Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment Program in Stellenbosch, South Africa. In this role she supports program development, implementation, monitoring and reporting activities for the programs. Additionally, she coordinates the communications and reporting activities between USAID and relevant country programs.

Before joining ICAP, Cristiane was a Global Health Prevention Specialist at the CDC/Global AIDS Program. Since September 2002, she was part of the PMTCT team and charged to provide technical assistance to the CDC Mozambique office in support of the National PMTCT program. She also provided technical assistance to USG agencies in Mozambique to develop Country Operational Plans and Strategic Plans for PEPFAR. She was responsible for managing and advising the development, field testing, global rollout and country-specific implementation of the “WHO/HHS-CDC PMTCT Generic Training Package” (GTP) in Guyana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Kenya and Nigeria. She designed and managed the development of the “HHS-CDC/USAID/WHO/UNICEF Testing and Counseling for PMTCT Support Tools” aimed at supporting healthcare providers to implement and increase uptake of HIV testing and counseling services in PMTCT settings.

Before joining GAP, she worked in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to coordinate a project to review and synthesize information to guide the measurement of critical core performance indicators for the Prevention Research Centers (PRC) program. She also worked at the Division of Parasitic Diseases to conduct a study to assess the sociocultural impact of visceral leishmaniasis in a rural community in Bangladesh.

Cristiane holds a master of science degree in nutrition and public health at Teachers College Columbia University and is a registered dietitian.