Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Stringer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She received her B.S from Davidson College and her M.D. and OBGYN specialty training from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After completing her residency training in 2001, she moved to the African nation of Zambia where she spent more than a decade engaged in improving clinical outcomes for pregnant women infected with HIV. This included work with national public health officials to implement a program to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission that reached over 1.6 million women. She also helped to build a family HIV treatment program – the first of its kind in the Zambian public sector – that became the basis for the country’s highly successful HIV care and treatment program, funded by PEPFAR. Alongside this programmatic work, Dr. Stringer conducted epidemiologic and clinical research at the intersection of HIV and maternal-child health, which she continues to this day. In 2012, she and her family moved back to the United States where she completed sub-specialty fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine and joined the UNC faculty. Although Dr. Stringer now lives in Chapel Hill, she maintains strong ties to her colleagues at the University of Zambia School of Medicine and has developed new collaborations in Leon, Nicaragua. Dr. Stringer is chairperson of the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine global health committee, is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and serves on the board of the American Schools in Tangier and Marrakesh, Morocco. She is the recipient of multiple research grants from the NIH and CDC and is committed to global health equity through training, mentorship, and research.