Andrew Edmonds

Andrew Edmonds, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, particularly HIV/AIDS, with expertise in observational cohort studies and advanced statistical methods. He serves as analytic director of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study and represents Central Africa in the IeDEA Pediatric Working Group and CIPHER Collaboration. His work addresses health insurance impacts, area-level factors, and clinical outcomes in HIV-affected populations across sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S.

Education: PhD in Epidemiology (UNC Chapel Hill, 2011), MSPH in Epidemiology (UNC 2007), BS in Molecular & Cellular Biology (University of Arizona, 2001).

Research interests include evaluating healthcare policies, geographic disparities, and pediatric HIV outcomes. He has published extensively on HIV-exposed infants, Medicaid expansion effects, and socioeconomic determinants of health. His awards include the Greenberg Award (2012) and Kaplan Student Publication Award (2010).

Teaching roles include guest lectures on HIV in developing countries, infectious disease seminars, and course development for applied epidemiological methods. He also served as a teaching assistant for core epidemiology courses.

Practice activities include epidemiological work at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health and peer review of manuscripts/proposals. His global collaborations emphasize improving HIV care in resource-limited settings through data-driven approaches.