Navita Jain is the Partnership Networks Lead at AVAC and previously served as Deputy Director of AVAC’s USAID-funded Coalition to Accelerate and Support Prevention Research (CASPR) Project, an Africa-centered advocacy movement promoting HIV prevention R&D as a core component of the global HIV response. She serves as a member of AVAC’s Leadership Team and works across AVAC to strengthen partnership strategy and engagement and is responsible for overseeing core AVAC advocacy programs and developing new initiatives to influence the future of HIV prevention advocacy. Since joining AVAC, Navita has been critical to growing CASPR’s partnership network, advancing sexual and reproductive health integration advocacy following the Evidence for Contraceptive Options in HIV Outcomes (ECHO) trial results, and coordinating equitable and informed advocacy from research to rollout for new HIV prevention products. Prior to joining AVAC, Navita was a Senior Project Officer at ICAP, where she supported the implementation and monitoring of HIV care, treatment and prevention programs in South Africa, Kenya, Myanmar, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. Navita also worked as a fellow with ICAP in Rwanda on the intersection of gender-based violence and HIV, and as a USAID Global Health Fellow in Cambodia assessing HIV home-based care programs.
Navita joined AVAC in 2016 and brings with her several years of experience in USG grant management, program implementation and monitoring, budgeting, and global health. Navita holds a MPH in Population and Family Health and Global Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a BA in Economics and Global Health from Northwestern University.