Deanna Kerrigan, PHD

Deanna Kerrigan, PhD, MPH is the Vice Dean, the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Center for Whole Person Health and a Professor of Health, Behavior, Society and Policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health ,

Dr. Kerrigan was previously the Professor and Chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the Milken Institute for Global Health at George Washington University. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing structural factors affecting the health of underserved populations, including the development and evaluation of community-based HIV prevention interventions among female sex workers in Latin America and Africa, funded through the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as the introduction of long-acting injectable forms of HIV prevention and treatment. She is also an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH).

Dr. Kerrigan has contributed to multiple UN initiatives such as WHO’s Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV and STI among Sex Workers and led the World Bank/UNFPA-sponsored book, The Global Epidemics of HIV among Sex Workers. Most recently, she was a professor of sociology and the director of the Center on Health, Risk, and Society at American University. She has served as the co-director of the Prevention Core of the NIH-funded Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and now serves on the executive committee of the DC CFAR. She previously directed the USAID-funded Research to Prevention, a global HIV prevention implementation science project.