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Assistant Director of Epidemiology
Epividian, Inc.
Disclosure(s): AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Client of my employer; EMD Serono: Client of my employer; Gilead Sciences: Client of my employer; Janssen: Client of my employer; Merck & Co.: Client of my employer; TheraTechnologies: Client of my employer; ViiV Healthcare: Client of my employer
Rachel Palmieri Weber, PhD is the Assistant Director of Epidemiology at Epividian, Inc. While obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Anthropology (2001) from the University of Pittsburgh, she worked at the Panic, Anxiety, and Traumatic Grief Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, gaining valuable experience in mental health clinical trials. She then coordinated the 2005 North Carolina Women’s Health Report Card and earned a Master of Science in Public Health (2006) in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Rachel further focused her training in women’s health on cancer epidemiology, working as the project and data manager for the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) at Duke University while earning her Doctor of Philosophy (2015) in Epidemiology at UNC; she used data from fifteen OCAC studies in an individual patient data meta-analysis of the association between hysterectomy and epithelial ovarian cancer for her doctoral dissertation. After graduate school, Rachel became the UNC program manager at the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center where she provided methodological expertise for systematic evidence reviews, comparative effectiveness reviews, and health technology assessments on screening, diagnosis, and treatment across a diverse range of therapeutic areas that included cancer, infectious disease, mental health, and women’s health. Rachel joined the Epividian team in 2019, gaining experience in HIV epidemiology, HIV-associated wasting, and implementation studies related to retention in HIV care.