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

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Ms. Michele Moloney-Kitts serves as the Assistant United States Global AIDS Coordinator in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), which leads implementation of President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). From June 2004 to October 2007, she served as the Director of Program Services at OGAC. In this capacity, she was responsible for the oversight of Emergency Plan implementation, and for coordinating technical assistance across the U.S. Government for international HIV/AIDS activities.

Ms. Moloney-Kitts is a Foreign Service Officer and a nurse midwife who 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. Before coming to the Coordinator's Office, Ms. Moloney-Kitts served in South Africa as the Senior Technical Advisor for HIV/AIDS for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Southern Africa regional program, working to strengthen HIV programs across 10 countries in the most affected part of the world. Working with USAID, she directed programs in HIV/AIDS and maternal child health that provided assistance to more than 80 countries, and served as a Population Health and Nutrition Officer in Morocco, Cambodia and South Africa. While in Cambodia, she led development of the U.S. Government strategy for working with non-governmental organizations and the Cambodian government to fight HIV/AIDS in Cambodia. In the United States, Ms. Moloney-Kitts launched one of the first HIV/AIDS programs for pregnant women in the city of Philadelphia, and 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.

October 24, 2007