Michele Moloney-Kitts, Assistant Coordinator, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Ms. Michele Moloney-Kitts serves as the Assistant United States Global AIDS Coordinator in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, which leads implementation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Ms. Moloney-Kitts is a key architect of PEPFAR's implementation and has served in a leadership role in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator since 2004.

Ms. Moloney-Kitts is a Foreign Service Officer and a nurse midwife. She has worked extensively in the United States and, for the last 20 years, internationally, in the areas of women and children's health, and HIV/AIDS. She has served as a health officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in South Africa, Morocco, Cambodia and Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she has provided extensive leadership and support in the areas of HIV/AIDS, maternal and reproductive health, and child survival. In the United States, Ms. Moloney-Kitts worked as a clinician, both as a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife, with a particular focus on underserved populations, especially adolescents. She also served on the faculty of Hahnemann University.

Ms. Moloney-Kitts received her B.S. (1977) from Boston College before specializing as a family planning nurse practitioner at the University of California, in San Francisco. She received her M.S. (1985) from the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in Nurse Midwifery.

December 3, 2009