Brad Gautney, PhD(c), MPH, PNP

Brad Gautney is the Founder and President of Global Health Innovations, a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, with the goal of providing life-saving interventions to pregnant mothers living with HIV/AIDS and their babies burdened by HIV/AIDS. Brad and his team are the creators of the HITSystem©, an automated and cost effective tool that improves Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT), HIV Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) and treatment outcomes. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he specialized in International Health and is a PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research is focused on utilizing the HITSystem© to improve HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child (PMTCT) and HIV Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) programs in Kenya and Tanzania. He and his team’s latest research manuscript was recently published in The Lancet HIV.