Erica is a Senior Research Associate at  MEASURE DHS/Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.  She has been with the MEASURE DHS project for 8 years, focusing on communications and HIV/AIDS.  She has a Masters of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a specialty in International Maternal and Child Health.  Through MEASURE DHS, Erica has worked in Ghana, the Philippines, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Uganda, and has develop materials for 20 additional countries.  In 1999 Erica lived in Namibia, attending university and doing research on HIV/AIDS.  She is a member of the UNAIDS Technical Working Group on HIV Indicators, and the Interagency working group on Youth and HIV.