Caroline De Schacht, MD, PhD

Caroline De Schacht is a public health researcher. She graduated from Medical School at the University of Ghent (Belgium), where she specialized in Family Medicine (2000). She has a Masters in Science Degree in Clinical Trials (2008) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and also obtained her PhD Degree in Biomedical Sciences, studying Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Mozambique (2015) at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Dr. De Schacht has 25 years of experience as an HIV technical advisor and public health researcher, of which the last 20 years in Mozambique. She has been leading various public health evaluations in the field of Mother and Child Health Care, Enlarged Vaccination Program, HIV/PMTCT, and COVID-19 and co-authored over 30 publications. Currently, she is the Evaluations Director at Friends in Global Health, where she manages several HIV-related PEPFAR and NIH-funded projects.