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Louise Vaz was a 2001-02 Hart Fellow working as the AIDS Officer of Associacão
Criança, Familía e Desenvolvimento (CFD) in Mozambique. Louise worked with CFD staff
to develop HIV/AIDS programming for communities served by CFD. She also led a qualitative
study of the HIV/AIDS situation in rural Mozambique and provided HIV/AIDS training to
Mozambican educators. Louise and her colleagues presented about their work at the
International AIDS Conference in Barcelona in July 2002.
Louise graduated from Duke in 2001 with a self-designed major in infectious disease.
Directly following her Hart Fellowship, she worked at the Centers for Disease Control
as an Emerging Infectious Disease Fellow, conducting research in Spain and Bangladesh.
She is now pursuing her medical degree at Vanderbilt University, with a focus on
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