Dr. Lisa Noguchi is a certified nurse-midwife and infectious disease epidemiologist. Over the past 22 years she has supported implementation and research in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Her education includes Bachelors degrees in anthropology and nursing, and a Masters degree in nurse-midwifery from the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and is currently an Associate in the Department of Epidemiology. She is currently MNH Director at Jhpiego; Co-chair of the NIH-funded B-PROTECTED study, which is studying safety and pharmacokinetics of PrEP and dapivirine ring during breastfeeding in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa; and Research Director for Jhpiego Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Mali sites in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ARC network. Dr. Noguchi has served on WHO Antenatal Care Guidelines, WHO HIV PrEP for Women and Girls, WHO Perinatal Executive Committee Guideline Development Group, and Trans-NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research Women and Girls Planning Group committees. She has published research and commentary in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including Gates Open Research, Birth Defects Research, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, PLoS One, Malaria Journal, AJOG, Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Lancet HIV, The Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine.