Beth Phillips, MPH
Beth Phillips is a Project Director in the Family and Community Medicine Department. She currently directs implementation research projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda that aim to innovate contraceptive counseling and follow-up care to support women's pregnancy prevention decisions. Beth builds dynamic teams and fosters equitable partnerships to maintain and strengthen robust research methods and innovative implementation approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health globally. For the past 15+ years, Beth has led implementation of numerous multi-site, global reproductive health research and intervention programs. She has extensive field-based experience in implementation science across several geographies, most recently including Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, San Francisco Bay Area, American Samoa, and the Navajo Nation. She also served twice with the US Peace Corps HIV prevention programs in Namibia and Uganda, earned a Masters in Global Family and Child Health from University of Arizona, and completed a Fulbright Fellowship on obstetric fistula treatment in Nigeria.