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G. LYNNE LACKEY, PhD

Dr G. Lynne Lackey recently completed a two-year appointment as Fulbright professor and researcher in Swaziland where she was attached to the Swaziland National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA), the country coordinating mechanism to address HIV/AIDS, and the University of Swaziland (UNISWA).

For NERCHA she served as a policy and planning associate, assisting with drafting national multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS policy and the national multi-sectoral clinical care and support strategic plan. She was attached to stakeholder committees addressing research and surveillance, nutrition, as well as policy and clinical care and support. At the University she taught in the Faculty of Social Sciences and assisted in drafting University HIV/AIDS policy and in developing related capacity to address HIV/AIDS. With a colleague in Swaziland she is exploring options for health worker training, recruitment and retention. She assists with continuing UNISWA capacity development efforts including the student-driven HIV/AIDS Peer Counselling and Education Movement.

Dr Lackey is a sociologist with post-doctoral training in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where her work focused on comparative international health policy. She was awarded tenure in Sociology and Urban Studies in the University of Wisconsin system, and among other appointments has served as Special Assistant for Health to the Governor of the State of Maryland (1988-91) and Senior Policy Analyst to the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General, US Department of Health and Human Services (1992-95).

Currently she is a visiting professor in the School of Public Affairs, Department of Health Systems Management, University of Baltimore, University of Maryland system. She is guest lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health, now assisting with a new course, Pharmaceuticals Management for Underserved Populations.

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